OSR Victorian Gothic: classes and a few notes.

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This was set up with S&W but can be used with LL with almost no effort; simply use the LL dice and use the LL saves and attacks.

Running this alternately with my Colonial game.
It is a Victorian Horror and Pulp setting. Inspirations are Hammer and Universal Horror, Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu series, Lovecraft, and Robert E. Howards weird horror storiesl

NOTE:
I want the characters a bit more fragile (fragile humans vs scary things) in this game so I'm limiting HP's to fifth level. Attacks, saves, etc continue as normal but HP's freeze at fifth.

Unlike most of my other games firearms damage is not open ended and I'm changing damage dice. They are not super-weapons and, while dangerous, are not the be all end all of weaponry. Gunfights are nasty and often require several shots to kill while bullets are flying all over the place.

We ran our first session tonight. It was a lot of fun. The classes worked out wonderfully. The Scholar players had a lot of fun researching. The research/investigation phases were quite fun.
The fights were brutal and a lot of bullets were expended. Frantic and the player's quickly figured out they weren't fantasy kill machines. The limited HP's seemed to really kick their tactics into high gear.

So far the magic is fairly non-existant.
For magical classes I will be using my Averoigne/Colonial Magic options for my with class and the Mage (magic User) classes. I'm also building a Medium class with built in psychic class abilities. A work in progress.

Character Creation and Classes
http://theosrlibrary.blogspot.com/2012/ ... asses.html

Firearms and Setting Rules Clarifications (binding wounds, weapon rules, etc)
http://theosrlibrary.blogspot.com/2012/ ... range.html

[baran_i_kanu]

Updates to classes (specifically improved numbers for Class abilities, new multiple attacks for Soldiers, cleaned up firearms rules, etc) found here:
http://theosrlibrary.blogspot.com/p/osr ... othic.html

The classes are easily used with both LL and S&W.