Mit der Mischung aus historischen Modellen des Zweiten Weltkriegs einerseits und einem alternativen Zeitstrahl mit futuristischen Elementen, gelang es Warlord Games mit der Neuauflage von Konflikt ’47 in der Szene Aufsehen zu erregen. Nun legt der britische Hersteller mit einem besonderen Kampagnenband nach.

Dieser Beitrag wurde von Geoffrey Förste geschrieben

These are a series of plot hooks that can be used when the group is tasked with carrying out a heist or investigating a previous one.

For a while now, I’ve been tinkering with my own roleplaying game, Raiders of Arismyth. One of the things I realised early on was that I need a good way lookup rules and other information quickly. Find the proper tables, skill descriptions and so on, and to be able to disseminate it to my players.

I briefly tried elventy, Hugo and similar frameworks, but found out that I’m not enough of a developer to actually enjoy doing that. But then, I’ve been using Obsidian for a while now to do random notetaking and to organize my campaign notes. Turns out, with the right plugins and other setup, this is pretty good!

So, what am I using, and how?

To start with, I’ve installed Obsidian, obviously. I’m storing the vault on my NAS, so I can access it via SMP share and webdav, regardless of where I am. I’m using the following plugins:

• Core plugins
  (These are mostly enabled by default anyway)
  • Backlinks
  • Command palette
  • File Recovery (just in case)
  • Note composer
  • Files
  • Graph view
  • Page preview
  • Quick switcher
  • Templates
• Community plugins
  • Dataview
    This enables queries to quickly add lists or tables composed from other notes, a godsend when it comes to compiling skill lists and such. The „News“ section pseudo-blog is also compiled with this.
  • Dataview Serializer
    Dataview doesn’t always play nice when exporting the whole vault to a website — the serializer plugin sorts that out by writing the result of the Dataview directly into the note.
  • Style Settings with the ITS Theme by SIRvb
    purely aesthetical, it makes the whole notebook look vaguely like a D&D book (I’m using WOTC/Beyond as TTRPG theme)
  • Virtual Linker / Glossary
    I find this super useful: I have a glossary folder, and whenever the plugin finds a glossary note title in any of the other notes, that becomes a link. And inside of Obsidian itself, the link even gets a hover-preview.
  • Webpage HTML Export
    This is what makes the site creation magic. The plugin grabs all notes and folders and files I tell it to grab, wraps them in some javascript and presto, you get something that can be uploaded to a webserver and provides a nice static site.

Whenever I want to update the site, I use the Command palette to trigger „Generate HTML Export using previous settings“. Obsidian itself doesn’t upload the result, for that I use a WinSCP shortcut on my desktop. It is not the most streamlined or automated process, but easy enough. The downside is that I really need to have an installed Obsidian on a desktop device — I cannot edit the Vault from the web, nor can I trigger the website update that way.

On the upside, I don’t need to worry overly about the website being hacked through unsafe PHP scripts, so there’s that.

Lately, I hear a lot of referees bemoaning the abominable weapon specialization introduced in Unearthed Arcana. Players, however, might complain, when this fighter boost rule is not allowed. I confess, having played a lot of 2e, I am quite used to weapon specialization being an integral part of the game.

How about this? During character creation, a player of a fighter or ranger character may opt to spend 2 weapon proficiency points to receive a weapon specialization as usual, but they roll a d% to find out which weapon their character will be specialized in.

01 Aklys

02-03 Axe, Battle

04-05 Axe, Hand

06-07 Bardiche

08-09 Bec de Corbin

10-11 Bill-Guisarme

12 Blowgun

13-14 Bo Stick

15 Bow, Composite, Long

16 Bow, Composite, Short

17 Bow, Long

18 Bow, Short

19 Club

20 Crossbow, Hand

21 Crossbow, Heavy

22 Crossbow, Light

23-24 Dagger

25-26 Dart

27-28 Fauchard

29-30 Fauchard-Fork

31 Flail, Footman’s

32 Flail, Horseman’s

33-34 Fork, Military

35-36 Glaive

37-38 Glaive-Guisarme

39-40 Guisarme

41-42 Guisarme-Voulge

43-44 Halberd

45 Harpoon

46-47 Hammer, Lucern

48-49 Hammer

50-51 Hook Fauchard

52-53 Javelin

54-55 Jo Stick

56 Lance, (light horse)

57 Lance, (medium horse)

58 Lance, (heavy horse)

59 Mace, Footman’s

60 Mace, Horseman’s

61-62 Morning Star

63-64 Partisan

65 Pick, Military, Footman’s

66 Pick, Military, Horseman’s

67-68 Pike, Awl

69-70 Ranseur

71 Sap

72-73 Scimitar

74-75 Sling

76 Sling, Staff

77-78 Spear

79-80 Spetum

81-82 Staff, Quarter

83-84 Sword, Bastard

85-86 Sword, Broad

87-88 Sword, Falchion

89-90 Sword, Khopesh

91-92 Sword, Long

93-94 Sword, Short

95-96 Sword, Two-Handed

97 Trident

98-99 Voulge

00 Whip

So you are specialized in the blowgun? I guess your parents could not afford a weapon master specialized in a more knightly weapon to train you in your youth.

Oh, you are a specialist of the guisarme-voulge, huh? Good luck finding a magical version of that one.