Thursday 8 October 2015

Corporia



Let another Kickstarter I am happy I backed ;-)

Reviews:
http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/16/16308.phtml
http://www.strangeassembly.com/2014/review-corporia

Now this is GOOD game if you are looking at a Cyperpunk/Shadowrun genre game. It has King Arthur (well at least the Knights of the Round Table), Cyberware/Bioware, Magic, Mega Corporations, Hacking, Magic +, Monsters, Order vs Chaos, Heroes, Villains and lets not forget, Zombies.

This is all wrapped up in a neat bundle, with a simple system of rolling 2d6, taking the highest dice rolled of the two, add it to your Stat+Skill. If you roll a 6, roll again and add it to the first roll.

 There are archetypes for character creation but these can be modified and combined to your hearts content (well nearly) :-)

You use Flux points to do the really cool stuff.

Similar to Fate, a character has three public traits and one (sometimes two) private trait.
For example you could take traits like Courageous or Good with a Gun or Cautious or Needs Frequent Intellectual Simulation. A private trait is usually negative, but does to need to be really bad, as long as it seems really bad to you :)

The GM may tempt you to undertake an action by mentioning one of your traits, or you could suggest an action that would involve one of your traits. Using traits gains you Flux points (1-6) which is negotiated between the GM and the player, the more dangerous or just embarrassing the trait induced action, the more Flux points. You are never forced to undertake an action that might be indicated by a trait.

Flux points can be used to prevent yourself from doing an action which is pretty obviously tempted by one of your traits.

Now the additional bonus for using your traits, and using them as often as you can, to get Flux points,  is that every time you gain Flux points from undertaking a trait tempted action OR resist a trait tempted action by spending Flux points, you gain 1 Build Point. Build points are used, as the name suggests, to improve your character.

This is why it it advisable to have a variety of traits that can be used in a variety of situations. It gives you more opportunities to gain Flux and Build points.

Corporia is set in "The City" a mega-city which may have a name but is only referred to by its inhabitants as The City. It is well freshed out.

I could tell you more but the review above tell it better so give them a read.

This is a very good game :)










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