Landlords for WFRP

Started a campaign of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (1e), set in the small town of Osburg. I figured the characters might want to rent rooms long-term instead of just staying at an inn, so I prepared a few landlords.

Characters in WFRP have different social levels depending on their career, and each landlord is suitable for a particular social level.

• A: Nobility
• B: Professionals, academics
• C: Craftsmen, tradesmen
• D: Laborers, criminals 

 

The Horn of Plenty (A)

Inn quarter, 400/- per month.

Luxury inn that offers long-term rooms. Servants and courtesans on staff can be hired by guests. Owner Grunhilda Kruger controls several inns, taverns and brothels in Osburg. 

Berthold Heinemann (B)

Castle quarter, 100/- per month. No elves, dwarves, or halflings.

Retired university professor from Altdorf. Can teach the skills Read/Write and History.

Etelka von Borgenschlag (B)

Castle quarter, 100/- per month.

Rich widow. Donates to artists and temples, has influence over the burgomeister Albrect Adelich. Wants to improve Osburg's reputation and attract sophisticated people to the town. Manipulates her tenants in this aim, if they seem useful.

 

Apprentice House (C)

Hammer quarter, 60/- per month. 40/- for apprentices of local artisans.

Big and lively house, overseen by retired blacksmith Gottolf Schmidt. Monthly 10% chance that non-apprentice tenants are run out to make room for new apprentices.

 

Pierre & Louise Grimain (C)

Bretonnian quarter, 50/- per month. 40/- for Bretonnians.

Married Bretonnian couple. 7 children who often bring friends over. Daily 10% chance that children investigate a tenant's room. 

Wilfrieda Kurst (C)

Schauplatz, 50/- per month.

Talkative middle-aged woman. Always knows the latest gossip. Spies on her tenants and spills anything juicy to her many acquaintances.

 

The Bad Badger (D)

Golden quarter, 30/- per month.

Hole-in-the-wall tavern run by Anna Pflugerbach, a woman in her thirties who is friendly with the local footpads. Rooms are above the tavern, and measure about 2 square meters / 20 square feet.

 

Gitta Fleischer & Johanna Gräber (D)

Axtstrasse, 30/- per month.

Young women, sickly looking, scabs. House built on the hillside up to the Garden of Morr (graveyard). Secret tunnel leads to the graves; Gitta and Johanna steal corpses to eat. Nightly 10% chance of graverobbing. Their feast can be heard in tenants' rooms. Every feast there is a 10% chance that Gitta and Johanna fully transform into ghouls (permanently).

 

Holger Spitkopf (D)

Hammer quarter, 30/- per month.

Grouchy, impulsive old man. Basement rooms with minimal windows. Monthly 20% chance that rent increases by 1d10/-.

 

Malina Erkendorfer (D)

Old town, 30/- per month.

Elderly woman, almost deaf. Interested in potted plants. On the top floor lives Zacharias Erichsen, who plays violin nightly, calling upon the power of Malal to protect him from Tzeentch's attacks. Nightly 20% chance that music disturbs sleep of other tenants, preventing wound and magic point recovery.

Ghibli-esque RPGs

I saw some discussion about Ghibli-esque RPGs on the NSR discord, and it made me think about what systems I would use for games inspired by the Studio Ghibli movies. Of course, the Ghibli movies are quite different from each other, so I picked out a system for each one.

And it's only the Hayao Miyazaki movies, because those are the ones I've seen.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

There's dynamic action and big weird monsters. A girl gets shot with a machine gun and keeps going. Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition should work great!

Castle in the Sky

I think there's like three dungeon crawls in this movie? Any old-school D&D would be fine, but I'll go with Tunnels & Trolls. Pazu would rack up a lot of AP from all the stunts he has to do.

My Neighbor Totoro

So the kids are doing a bunch of esoteric stuff with the spirits and the adults don't notice anything is off, but the magic is real because the mom got that corn in the end and it did cure her illness. Sounds like Mage to me! Adults = sleepers.

Kiki's Delivery Service

Cargo delivery, patrons, random encounters, desperately trying to stay afloat in a harsh gig economy - Traveller is a perfect fit for this movie, if you replace the spaceships with broomsticks. I do want to add some Call of Cthulhu mechanics though: if you run out of SAN, you can't fly anymore.

Porco Rosso

Your life is a failure, you're out of money, the secret police is looking for you, and you're a pig for some weird reason. Yeah, you're in an Electric Bastionland game.

Princess Mononoke

There's a lot of fighting in this movie, with lots of body parts getting slashed/shot/bitten off. Also a demon infection disease. I think Rolemaster is the right system for this one.

Spirited Away

This movie is all about working a shitty job while dealing with dangerous otherworldly entities. It's Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay! Just need to write up a Bathhouse Worker career.

Howl's Moving Castle

A small team of weirdos try to save the world from devastating war. F.I.S.T., right?

Ponyo

So the whole world gets imbalanced when Ponyo leaves the sea, and that causes a series of apocalyptic events. MÖRK BORG has a good mechanic for that!

The Wind Rises

Yeah, this is just a dude who makes planes and stuff, and then his wife gets sick. For games set in contemporary times with little to no combat or supernatural stuff, I like to use GURPS. Bonus: If the Jiro player actually wants to design those planes, I'm sure GURPS has extremely detailed rules for that.

The Boy and the Heron

Now this movie is far out. The boy moves between a number of strange locales with strange people, and it's probably an allegory for something or other. I will choose Between the Skies for this one. It's very good at strange.

And that's all of them!

Until Miyazaki makes his next final movie

Taken by the Blood-Men

I made Taken by the Blood-Men, an entry for Idle Cartulary's Zungeon jam!

It's a 1st level dungeon adventure, statted for old-school games, 5th edition, Into the Odd, and Tunnels & Trolls. Captured by horrifying Blood-Men, can you survive and escape?

You can download the adventure here, and you can read more about zungeons here.