OSR Classes: The Mastermind and the Rook

After my last post on Flexible Reaction Rolls, I found myself thinking about how to build Character Classes that fit with the schemey, urban style of play I'm shooting for with Fellhold. The trouble for me until now was that I couldn't think of ways to get that stuff without impinging on the Old School playstyle I enjoy. What cracked it for me was turning the Reaction Roll into a mechanic with more knobs to play with. From there I also realized that Advantage/Disadvantage opened up a lot of new possibilities, and so I built one class on each of those realizations.

The Mastermind is the classic brains behind the operation. It struck me that advantage/disadvantage are a pretty great way to model careful planning without having to go full-on storygame metagame city. Their first level ability Forethought can potentially be quite powerful, but requires clever thinking and skill on the player's part. Their final ability ("I Love It When A Plan Comes Together") does get awfully close to the storygamey end of things, and might in reality just be "use in case of boss fight" - but I'll test it. The class also serves as a secondary adventure hook generator through the extra contacts, their starting gear, and their second level class ability ("A Little Bird Told Me").

The Rook is "the face" - hyper-sociable, built around understanding and tweaking NPC reactions. Getting +1 to reaction rolls per two templates is huge (especially when combined with the class features) and kind of guarantees this character will speak for the party all the time - I haven't decided if that means I need to remove it or if that's awesome. This class pretty much has super powers in one area that has very little to do with fighting, which right now seems pretty cool. Someone with 4 levels in Rook becomes a best-friend factory and basically gives the party an off-switch for combat with anybody even possibly open to parley.

(Incidentally, if you're following the classic trinity of group dynamics, I figure PCs will collectively provide the wild card).

Starting equipment is stingier than in Arnold's or Skerples's classes, but that's because I plan on building them into my Equipment Tables.

Multi-classing 2/2 with these two classes might be terrifyingly powerful in social situations, but I think I'm okay with that, given the usual lack of options for that sort of thing in OSR classes.

A Note on Mechanics
If you're not familiar, Arnold K's GLOG is his homebrew/Philosopher's Stone, and I rather like it. See the link if the format below doesn't make any sense to you.

If you do not use this most excellent modification, fear not! The classes below have a "base class" - use this for XP, HD, Saves, Attack Bonus, gear restrictions, and so on. As for the class abilities, you have a few options:
- Follow the same steep, ultimately low power curve of the GLOG and give one template per level up to 4
- For a more spaced out progression that assumes 10th level is about as high as you go, give the prime ability at level 1 and then a template every odd level (1, 3, 5, 7, 9)
- Look at the templates and eyeball when to give them to the character to match the power level of your other classes

Enough intro, here are the classes.

By Isei-Silva

Mastermind

Clever folks who think ahead and help their team get things done.

(Base Class: Thief)

Prime Ability: Meddlesome

Per Template: +1 Willpower Save, +1 Contact

Starting Equipment: Disguise Kit, Incriminating Letter

A Forethought

B A Little Bird Told Me

C True Sight

D I Love It When a Plan Comes Together

Class Features

MEDDLESOME

Once per day, you may give another character (PC or NPC) advice. If they follow it, you may decide to give them either Advantage or Disadvantage on one roll related to the advice. To give Advantage, the advice must be sound and something that either you or your character know enough about to advise on. To give Disadvantage, they must believe it to be good, but there must be something wrong with it (convincing bullshit counts).

FORETHOUGHT

Choose one or more of the following: activity, place, being, conditions. For each that you specify, gain one use of Advantage on rolls that meet all of the criteria. For example, if you said “Hand to hand fighting in an alley with humans while its raining”, you would get advantage on four rolls involving hand-to-hand fighting with humans in an alley in the rain. The GM may rule that any of the criteria are too broad and require more specificity. 

A LITTLE BIRD TOLD ME

Once per week, choose one: 1) Name a known NPC and the GM will tell you one true secret about them, which might be boring,  2) Learn a juicy rumor about a previously unknown NPC - might be true, might not, and the identity might be unclear.

TRUE SIGHT

As long as you can see their face, you always know when someone is lying to you - not necessarily about what specifically, just that there is untruth there.

I LOVE IT WHEN A PLAN COMES TOGETHER

Once per adventure or dungeon, you can declare that you’ve been planning for this very situation all along. Everyone in the group gets advantage on every roll this round. Gain an extra round of this if you come up with an especially convincing narrative of how you influenced prior actions to lead to this outcome.

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Rook

Affable folks that know how to say just what others want to hear.

(Base Class Thief, or Bard if You Have It) 

Prime Ability: Read Folks

Per Template: +1 to Reaction Rolls for every two templates, rounded down, +1 Contact

Starting Equipment: Flattering Clothes, Disguise Kit, Invitation to a Shindig

A Well Read

B Likable

C Tempting

D Charming

Class Features

READ FOLKS

You have an uncanny knack for seeing what folks are thinking and feeling. Once per a meeting, you can ask the GM what the NPC die will be on the next reaction roll if you take a certain approach, make a given argument, and so forth.

WELL READ

You know lots of interesting things to talk about. Any time you make a knowledge-based test in a social situation, you count as having the skill at rank 3. Note that you only know enough to talk about these things, not to do anything with them. You could have a wonderful conversation about quadratic equations with a mathematician, but you could not then plot ballistic parabola.

LIKABLE

When the GM makes a reaction roll where you are the spokesman, your PC die will be one step higher. 

TEMPTING

If you put the moves on someone amenable to your advances, and a reaction roll comes up middling or better, they are very attracted to you, which will color their reactions to you (improved reaction rolls, more willing to hear you out, and so forth). Note that it does not guarantee they will like you, just want you.

CHARMING

Once per week, you can declare you are laying the charm on thick before a reaction roll is rolled. If the roll comes up pretty good or better, they are affected as Charm Person. If after a week you haven’t done anything to push them away or piss them off, the friendship becomes genuine. Add them as a contact.

Flexible Reaction Rolls

Reaction rolls are one of my very favorite set of rules. They're quick, easy, and help me to come up with more interesting stuff than I might on my own. I use them as a general purpose social sub-system, though not nearly to the same extent as Courtney Campbell in his excellent On the Non-Player Character. Instead, I use them more as an oracle when I'm unsure of how the NPCs would react. With Fellhold being an urban game, social interaction is even more of a big deal than I like for it to be in dungeon or wilderness games, so I've been thinking about them a lot recently.

It was while trying to figure out how best to track PC's reputations with different factions that I hit on the core idea below: the PC(s) and the NPC(s) each "bring" a die to the roll. A couple years back, Logan Knight suggested I move reaction rolls up and down die steps (so, say, 2d4, 1d4+1d6, 2d6, 1d6+1d8, and so forth). Then the other week I read Mateo Diaz's post, which introduced me to the idea of having different sources for the two dice. What you see below is what I came up with based on all that. As always, let me know anything that doesn't work or could be better.

Underground Scene by Eric Koch

Reaction Rolls

Reaction rolls are hugely useful for an urban game, given the high number of social interactions. 

Context is very important for reaction rolls in Fellhold, and you will need to use some judgement in interpreting rolls. Guests at a dinner party are much less likely to attack on sight than a wild troll in a dungeon. The table below gives some guidance for common situations.

Roll	Dungeon	Merchant	Social	General
2 or less	Attack	Swindle	Mean	Worst Possible
3-5	Wary	Tightfisted	Rude	Pretty Bad
6-8	Willing to Deal	Fair	Polite	Middling
9-11	Interested	Helpful	Friendly	Pretty Good
12+	Friendly	Generous	Best Friends!	Best Possible

Two-Sided Reaction Rolls

All reaction rolls are made with two dice - d6s by default. Each side brings one die to the roll. The die for the player character(s) will be based on their demeanor and approach, while the die for the NPC(s) will be based on their disposition and prejudices, including how they feel about the factions the PCs belong to. Adjust the roll using the spokesman’s CHA modifier.

The game master determines both die sizes, but the PC die should be based on what steps the PCs are or aren’t taking to make a certain sort of impression - acting threatening or friendly? Somewhere they belong or not? Well dressed or filthy? Asking clarifying questions is a good idea here.

Die Steps for Reaction Dice

For both sides of the reaction roll, dice can step up or down from a d4 (the worst) to d12 (the best). 

The NPC’s die size is up to the game master’s discretion, but some common situations are covered below.

From a hostile faction: down one step

From a friendly faction: up one step

From a faction you belong to: up two steps

In hostile turf: down one step

On friendly turf: up one step

Multiple Reaction Rolls

Reaction rolls are helpful any time you need to gauge how an NPC feels about something, not just when first meeting the PCs, so some interactions will have multiple rolls. In such interactions, you may adjust one or both of the dice depending on how the encounter is going.

Example: the PCs meet a group of Pickers deep underground, you initially roll 2d6 because neither group is doing anything particularly helpful or harming and you get a 7. The Pickers begin speaking with the PC group, who try to overawe them with talk of how fierce they are. Pickers aren’t much impressed by this kind of thing, so when the PCs demand the Pickers hand over 50% of what they’ve found so far, you adjust the PC die down to a d4 and roll to see what they think of the offer, getting a 10, amazingly. The Pickers Laugh and say no way, but they like the stones on these guys. For further interaction, you bump it back up to 2d6. 

Player Character Races in Fellhold

I've put together an eclectic set of PC races for my Fellhold setting, but I'm pretty happy with them. I've tried to follow Arnold's advice to avoid passive modifiers that lead to builds, but man, after decades of that being the way races get distinguished, it's hard to get around.  Let me know what you think, and especially if you see anything that doesn't quite work. All art by the awesome Eric Koch.

TL;DR

• Crabmen were inspired by Yoon-Suin, but I've taken them in a very different direction. Artsy-fartsy merchants and intelligentsia
• Fiends are like the Kami in Princess Monoke, but they want your soul. 
• Half Dwarves are the descendants of humans and dwarves interbreeding, and take on traits that you might find associated with dwarves or halflings in other settings. Most of them are bitter about their lost glory and are in the mafia
• Humans are humans, but in this cosmopolitan city, they're the most adept at getting along with all the strange shit. 
• Ratmen are basically Skaven, but instead of being riven by internal factionalism and backbiting, they have the strongest mono-culture in town, are matriarchal, and happen to be the best cooks
• Tieflings have fiend blood. Yes, I need to find a name that isn't WOTC copyright. Everybody thinks they're sexy and clever and untrustworthy, but they mostly roll their eyes at that.
• I haven't decided whether Draugr (full or partial undead from selling parts of your soul) should be a PC race or something that can just happen to PCs if they sell bits of their souls - right now I'm leaning towards the latter

PC Races in Fellhold

Game Master Note

The races presented below are the default for Fellhold. Depending on how you place Fellhold in the world, you may have some changes. You might allow other races not included here or restrict some of these.

Generally speaking, if you want to stress the weirdness of Fellhold, start out with only human PCs and let players choose new races as they’re meaningfully found in play. Crabmen just don’t feel that weird if your buddy sitting next to you is one of them. On the other hand, if you want to stress the cosmopolitan, urban feel of Fellhold, allow all of the races below (or even more) - this will give a feeling that Crabmen are just another sort of folk you’re likely to run into daily. 

General Rules

Each race below includes a brief, general description of the race and its characteristics along with any special boons or banes that come with being a member of that race. Note also that race will be a factor in some other areas of the game not covered here, such as the ability to progress in, or even join, some of the factions of the city, the sorts of stereotypes NPCs will hold about you, and so forth.

Player Character Race Descriptions

Crabmen

Despite their large, hulking appearance and natural armor, crabmen tend towards philosophical and artistic temperaments. They make up a large number of the sages of the city, and of course their enormously wealthy Merchant Houses are known to all. Generally, crabmen are extremely cooperative with members of their own family, especially their own birthing group, and have a hard time helping out or even caring about anyone outside of it. Many crabmen have gotten around this through fairly widespread “adoption” of friends and business partners.

SPECIAL

Crabmen’s natural exo-skeleton means that their unarmored AC is 2 better than a human’s. Armor is much harder to make for crabmen, as it is not much in demand by them and must be made larger, so any armor costs 2x the normal cost. Their reactions to anyone not in their “family” will tend towards apathy and ignoring them. Crabmen receive advantage on any rolls related to intellectual or artistic pursuits besides magic (study, crafting, and so forth). Their large size and rigid bodies means that they will have difficulty squeezing into some tight spaces, or in situations that require great flexibility.

Fiends

Fiends are the warped and wicked results of the godsdeath. They vary greatly in both power and form from minor animalistic sprites of rocks and saplings to mighty humanoid powers worshiped as gods. A player character fiend is far more powerful than many of these minor beings, but is still pretty far down the ladder. Fiends thrive on souls and worship, and most turn all of their doing towards those goals.

SPECIAL

Every fiend must have a stead, a place or thing that it is bound to. The fiend cannot move farther away from it than its level in miles (or level in districts, if more useful). Steads can be carried with fiends of the PC’s size and power, but if a  stead is destroyed, the fiend truly dies. If otherwise killed, the fiend will reform at its stead in 1d4 urbancrawl turns (weeks). If a fiend swears an oath or signs a contract, it cannot willingly break that deal (but of course, the word of the deal, not necessarily the spirit). Fiends can also be summoned, compelled, and bound as NPC fiends. Fiends must have a Use Name, Greater Name, and True Name.

Half Dwarves

Half Dwarves are the mixed descendants of the original dwarf settlers of Fellhold and humans. They have become a stable race of their own, but still stubbornly refer to themselves as true dwarves, claiming the inheritance of the Dwarven Great Kingdom as theirs by right. Their society is organized by huge extended families, run by Forefathers and Foremothers, the Fathers and Mothers of member families, and so on. Formerly the masters of trade and craft in the city, their wealth has been surpassed by the Crabmen, and they are eternally bitter for it. 

SPECIAL

Half Dwarves are extremely hardy and gain advantage on any and all saves against poison, drugs, or disease and ignore their first pip of exhaustion in a day. Their reactions to crabmen will be generally negative, unless they know the person well and have come to like them. Their small size means both that they can more easily slip into tight spaces, but also that large foes can more easily knock them down, pick them up, or otherwise use brute force.

Humans

Humans are both the most numerous race within Fellhold and the least represented in its most powerful groups, unless you include the undead Witch Kings as still being “human”.  Descended from every culture ever conquered by the Dwarves or the Witch Kings, humans are a varied lot made up of many groups, each with their own distinct look, belief, and way of living. 

SPECIAL

Humans by need have come to understand and live with wildly different groups of people of every race, and so reaction rolls with new or otherwise unknown people will always be one step higher when dealing with a human. Humans are also a remarkably stubborn race, and so may re-roll one failed saving throw to avoid death once per day.

Ratmen

Ratmen are one of the most insular races, living as one unified clan under the rule of their Queen and their Fiend God. Despite being seen as sneaky and not to be trusted by most other races, they are also regarded as the finest cooks in all of Fellhold, and most people don’t believe the rumors that they don’t care too much what or who goes into the cookpot. 

SPECIAL

Unless a player chooses otherwise, all Ratmen are presumed to belong to the Ratmen Clan faction to begin with. Ratmen are especially lithe and stealthy, and so receive advantage on any rolls where they are attempting to sneak. Their AC against ranged weapons is improved by one due to their keen senses and quick wits. Any other race besides fiends will have their reaction rolls reduced by one step unless they know the ratman from before. Their small size also means that their maximum hit points are one lower per hit die than normal (minimum of 1). 

Tieflings

The descendants of the other races with the addition of fiend blood, tieflings are not quite a distinct society of their own, but instead largely integrate themselves into others, usually that of their mortal kin. That being said, they have some ties to one another, and others view them as a distinct group. They are regarded as sexy, clever, untrustworthy, and ambitious, but they tend to roll their eyes at this. How much of their look they get from their fiendish forebearers varies widely, with some having nubby little horns under their hair or a small tail, while others could pass for fiends themselves.

SPECIAL

Tieflings’ fiendish blood makes them resistant to magic, so they gain advantage on any saves against magic. Their mysterious allure also allows them, once per week, to have an immediate Charm Person effect on anyone who makes a neutral or better reaction roll toward them. This effect lasts for a number of days equal to the tiefling’s level, but they might actually become your friend in the meantime. Also due to their fiendish blood, if a Tiefling’s true name is used in making a deal or contract, they cannot willingly violate that deal. Also, having fiendish blood themselves, they cannot believe strongly enough in another fiend to receive any benefits from magic gained by worship of fiends. 

Money & Equipment in Fellhold

I don't know about you, but I find coming up with equipment lists a huge pain in the ass. Coming up with starting equipment packages? Even harder. So why don't I just use one of the perfectly serviceable equipment lists already out there? Because I definitely buy into the thought that equipment lists are a great way to convey implicit setting and approaches to the game. So I bit the bullet and cranked the below out. It could definitely use some work, and the equipment packs owe a great deal to Brendan's excellent OD&D ones. 

Any and all thoughts on how to spice this up are welcome, but I'm especially looking to make an evocative random item table so that everybody gets at least one interesting but not-obviously-useful piece of kit.

Coins of Fellhold

Fellhold has three kinds of coins, issued by the Soul Banks based on the Soul Standard (theoretically, you can take your coins into a bank and demand the current market rate for bottled souls in exchange for your cash, but why would you want to?)

Copper Pennings: The common coin used in most business in Fellhold - a triangle about an inch on a side with a hole in the middle. One copper penning equals one experience point. (CP)

Silver Skillings: 100 Copper Pennings make up one Silver Skilling, so they are used for settling contracts and loans, day to day business between merchants, and the like. A thin, rectangular piece of silver, both sides show fine old-dwarven knotwork.  (SP)

Gold Marks: Worth 100 Silver Skillings, Marks are rarely seen outside of large business deals or the hoards of the wealthy. These fat gold hexagons have a raised outer lip and show a leering devil face on one side and the mark of the bank that stamped it on the other.

Starting Cash & Gear

Player characters begin with 3d6x10 CP, or else can roll for a starting equipment pack by class. Either of these can be supplemented by loans as seen shown below. All characters begin with a backpack, blanket, a waterskin, three helpings of pack food, one torch, and a tinder box.

Taking Out Loans

During character creation, PCs may take out one or more loans to secure additional gear. To do so, create a random specialist NPC - this is the PCs creditor. The PC receives a loan of 3d6x10 copper pieces to be used however they see fit. Assign the PC a d4 Loan Usage die. For every week that goes by that the PC does not pay their loan, roll the die. On a maximum result, step the die up one step. The PC can move the Loan Die down one step by paying the original loan amount. If it every reaches a d10, their creditor has lost patience and sends out goons to collect.

Sellers

If you wish to make finding the right place to buy goods as much a part of your game as where to fence adventuring loot, you may create a seller using the Merchant Table in the Specialist NPCs section for each category of gear below. Adjust prices accordingly. The first seller generated carries the entire category of gear. If a player wants to buy something at character generation, they must use the first seller generated - but if players are unhappy with this particular seller, they may search out others by using urbancrawl actions during play. Every new seller has a 50% chance of carrying each item when visited (this can change on future visits, or items can be special ordered for a fee). Every new seller should be added to the game master’s list of NPCs and placed in a neighborhood.

Equipment Packs 

To speed up character creation, players can elect to roll for a starting equipment pack rather than “shopping” with starting money. This method is especially recommended for new players and when adding a new character to an existing game. Specific items can be substituted with the Game Master’s permission. Players can also step down one or more steps and take 10 CP per step down. All characters begin with a backpack, blanket, a waterskin, three helpings of pack food, one torch, and a tinder box. To generate an equipment pack, roll 3d6 and look in the column for your class. 

Roll	Fiend	Fighter	Ghost Wrangler	Thief	Wizard	Witch
3	Homeless,	Homeless, Knife, Hammer, Iron Spikes, Lard	Homeless, Knife, Beer (1 qt), Candle, Bell, Ball Bearings	Homeless, Blackjack, Rope (50’), Grappling Hook	Homeless, Knife, Pipe, Seaweed, Bell	Homeless, Knife, Cigar, Cat
4	Poor,	Poor, Knife, Cigarettes	Poor, Knife, Beer (1 Qt), Candle, Bell	Poor, Knife, Blackjack, Mirror, Chalk, Dice, Cards	Poor, Knife, Crow	Poor, Knife, Chicken
5	Poor,	Poor, Knife, Caltrops, Shovel	Poor, Knife, Beer (1 Qt), Candle, Bell, Ball Bearings	Poor, Knife, Black Jack, Lard, Crowbar	Poor, Knife, Pipe, Seaweed, Candle, Chalk, 2 CP	Poor, Knife, Cigar, Cat
6	Comfortable, Knife	Poor, Hand Axe, Dice, Chalk, Mirror, Pipe, Playing Cards	Poor, Knife, Beer (1 Qt), Candle, Bell, Disguise Kit	Poor, Knife, Rope, Grappling Hook, Bell	Poor, Knife, Pipe, Seaweed, Crow, Candle, Chalk, 2 CP	Poor, Knife, Cooking Kit, Chicken, Chalk, Playing Cards, Candle, 1 CP
7	Comfortable, Knife, Crow	Poor, Tomahawk, Knife, Hammer, Iron Spikes, Oil Flask	Poor, Knife, Tomahawk, Beer (1 Qt), Candle, Bell, Ball Bearings	Poor, Knife, Throwing Knives, Ladder	Poor, Knife, Club, Pipe, Seaweed, Crow, Candle, Chalk, 2 CP	Poor, Knife, Cat, Chicken, Acid
8	Comfortable, Sword	Poor, Spear, Knife, Sledgehammer	Poor, Knife, Tomahawk, Beer (1 Qt), Candle, Bell, Disguise Kit	Poor, Knife, Ball Bearings, Caltrops, Sack, Lard, Candle, Chalk, Playing Cards, Dice	Poor, Knife, Club, Pipe, Seaweed, Crow, Coffee, Candle, Chalk, 2 CP	Poor, Knife, Cigar, Cat, Chicken, Acid
9	Comfortable, Sword, Crow	Poor, Sword, Tomahawk, Hammer, Iron Spikes, Bucket	Poor, Sword, Tomahawk, Beer (1 Qt), Candle, Bell, Coffee	Poor, Knife, Brass Knuckles, Hand Axe, Caltrops, Crowbar	Poor, Knife, Club, Pipe, Seaweed, Galdrabok (extra), Candle, Chalk, 2 CP	Poor, Knife, Blackjack, Disguise Kit, Acid, Cooking Kit
10	Comfortable, Knife, Pack Goat	Poor, Sword, Tomahawk, Sledgehammer, Crowbar, Cigarettes	Poor, Sword, Tomahawk, Beer (1 Qt), Candle, Bell, Coffee, Ball Bearings	Poor, Knife, Throwing Knives, Rope (50’), Grappling Hook, Ball Bearings, Dice, Chalk, Playing Cards, Candle	Comfortable, Knife, Club, Pipe, Seaweed, Crow, Candle, Chalk, 2 CP	Comfortable, Knife, Cat, Cooking Kit
11	Comfortable, Knife, Pack Goat, Sack	Poor, Warhammer, Knife, Pick Axe, Bucket, Coffee, Cigarettes	Poor, Sword, Tomahawk, Beer (1 Qt), Candle, Bell, Coffee, Disguise Kit	Poor, Bow, Knife, Arrows, Caltrops, Rope (50’), Grappling Hook, Ladder	Comfortable, Knife, Club, Pipe, Seaweed, Coffee, Crow, Candle, Chalk, 2 CP	Comfortable, Knife, Cooking Kit, Chicken, Acid, Lard
12	Comfortable, Knife, Pack Crab	Poor, Hand Axe, Shield, 2x Oil Flasks, Cigarettes	Poor, Sword, Tomahawk, Beer (1 Qt), Candle, Bell, Coffee, Disguise Kit, Ball Bearings	Poor, Sword, Knife, Throwing Knives, Disguise Kit, Dice, Cards, Chalk, Mirror, 5 CP	Comfortable, Knife, Club, Pipe, Seaweed, Coffee, Crow, Candle, Chalk, 2 CP	Comfortable, Knife, Cooking Kit, Chicken, Disguise Kit, Cigar, Lard
13	Comfortable, Tomahawk, Pack Crab	Poor, Sword, Shield, Bow, Arrows, Oil Flask	Poor, Sword, Tomahawk, Beer (1 Qt), Candle, Bell, Coffee, Ball Bearings, Dog	Poor, Bow, Sword, Knife, Arrows, Rope (50’), Grappling Hook, Crowbar	Comfortable, Knife, Club, Pipe, Seaweed, Galdrabok (extra), Candle, Chalk, 2 CP	Comfortable, Knife, Cooking Kit, Disguise Kit, Chicken, Cat, Cigar, Lard
14	Comfortable, Sword, Pack Crab	Poor, Spear, Shield, Throwing Knives	Poor, Sword, Tomahawk, Beer (1 Qt), Candle, Bell, Coffee, Dog, Disguise Kit	Poor, Knife, Blasting Stick, Fuse, Ladder, Rope (50’), Bell	Comfortable, Knife, Club, Pipe, Seaweed, Galdrabok (extra), Crow, Candle, Chalk, 2 CP	Comfortable, Light Armor, Knife, Lard
15	Comfortable, Light Armor, Tomahawk, 5 CP	Poor, Light Armor, War Shovel, Oil Flask	Poor, Light Armor, Sword, Tomahawk, Beer (1 Qt), Candle	Poor, Light Armor, Bow, Arrows, Knife, Sack	Comfortable, Light Armor, Knife, Pipe, Seaweed	Comfortable, Light Armor, Knife, Cooking Kit
16	Comfortable, Light Armor, Sword, 5 CP	Poor, Light Armor, Bow, Arrows, Knife, Caltrops, Cigarettes	Poor, Light Armor, Sword, Tomahawk, Beer (1 Qt), Candle, Ball Bearings	Poor, Light Armor, Sword, Knife, Tomahawk, Dice, Cards, Mirror, Chalk	Comfortable, Light Armor, Knife, Pipe, Seaweed, Crow	Comfortable, Light Armor, Knife, Cooking Kit, Chicken
17	Comfortable, Light Armor, Sword, Knife, 5 CP	Poor, Light Armor, Spear, Throwing Knives, Lard	Poor, Light Armor, Sword, Tomahawk, Beer (1 Qt), Candle, Disguise Kit	Poor, Light Armor, Sword, Bow, Knife, Arrows, Disguise Kit	Comfortable, Light Armor, Knife, Pipe, Seaweed, Crow, Candle, Chalk, 2 CP	Comfortable, Light Armor, Knife, Cooking Kit, Chicken, Cat
18	Comfortable, Light Armor, Knife, Pack Goat, 5 CP	Comfortable, Light Armor, Sword, Knife, Hammer, Iron Spikes	Comfortable, Light Armor, Sword, Tomahawk, Beer (1 Qt), Candle	Comfortable, Light Armor, Bow, Arrows, Knife, Lantern, Oil Flask, Rope (50’)	Comfortable, Light Armor, Knife, Pipe, Seaweed, Crow, Coffee, Candle, Chalk, 2 CP	Comfortable, Light Armor, Knife, Cooking Kit, Chicken, Cat, Cigar

Equipment List

The lists below give a good flavor of what adventurous types might be most interested in buying in Fellhold, but just about anything can be had in the vast city. Talk to the Game Master about anything you’d like to buy that you don’t see below. All characters begin with a backpack, blanket, a waterskin, three helpings of pack food, one torch, and a tinder box.

Lifestyle

Homeless (0) Free

Poor (d4) 20 CP

Comfortable (d6) 50 CP

Luxurious (d8) 1000 CP

Weapons

Axe, Hand (Cleave) 30 CP

Axe, Lumberjack (Heavy) 40 CP

Axe, Tomahawk (Ranged, Light) 20 CP

Blackjack (Close, Light, Knockout) 5 CP

Blunderbuss (Firearm, Spread) 200 CP

Bow (Ranged) 30 CP

Brass Knuckles (Close, Knockout) 20 CP

Club (Knockout) 10 CP

Knife/Dagger (Close) 10 CP

Musket (Ranged, Firearm) 240 CP

Pistol (Ranged, Reactive, Firearm) 160 CP

Spear (Reach) 40 CP

Sword (Smooth) 30 CP

Throwing Knives/Stars (Close, Ranged, Light) 30 CP

War Shovel (Reach, Heavy) 50 CP

Warcrow (Crush, Cleave) 60 CP

Warhammer (Crush) 40 CP

Armor

Light (AC 7) 75 CP

Medium (AC 5) 500 CP

Heavy (AC 3) 1500 CP

Shield (-1 AC, Sunder) 50 CP

Gear

Acid (vial) 20 CP

Arrows (per usage die) 5 CP

Ball Bearings 10 CP

Barrel 20 CP

Bell 5 CP

Blanket 2 CP

Blasting Stick 50 CP

Block and Tackle 10 CP

Bucket 5 CP

Caltrops 10 CP

Camp Blanket 5 CP

Candle 2 CP

Cards, Playing 1 CP

Chain, 10’ 5 CP

Chalk 1 CP

Cooking Kit 15 CP

Crowbar 10 CP

Dice 1 CP

Disguise Kit 20 CP

Fuse (1 usage die) 30 CP

Galdrabok 30 CP

Grappling Hook 10 CP

Hammer 10 CP

Iron Spikes 5 CP

Ladder, 10’ 10 CP

Lantern 20 CP

Mirror 2 CP

Oil Flask 5 CP

Pack 30 CP

Pickaxe 10 CP

Pipe 5 CP

Pole, 10’ 2 CP

Rope, 50’ 15 CP

Sack 10 CP

Shot & Powder (1 usage die) 10 CP

Shovel 10 CP

Sledgehammer 10 CP

Thieve’s Tools 30 CP

Tinder Box 5 CP

Torch 5 CP

Water Skin, quart 2 CP

Wheelbarrow 40 CP

Food, Drink, and Drugs

Beer, pint 3 CP

Lard, quart 5 CP

Pack Food, Meal 15 CP

Roasted Coffee Beans 10 CP

Seaweed Cigar 10 CP

Seaweed Cigarettes (per usage die) 10 CP

Seaweed, Loose (per usage die) 10 CP

Whiskey, quart 40 CP

Critters

Cat 10 CP

Chicken 10 CP

Crab, Pack 60 CP

Crow 10 CP

Dog 30 CP

Goat, Pack 40 CP

Pig 30 CP