Fates #3 (The Iconic One)

VII. The Chariot

OK, this is the last of my Fates previews, and I sort of had no choice about which one to post. It's the Chariot. It's my card, the card of victory through struggle.

It's also the character type that owes the most to a fiction outside of esoteric literature and my own juvenilia, namely The Metabarons, Jodorowsky's saga about that family of ultimate warriors who could destroy galaxies in the blink of an eye but who absolutely couldn't get their relationships in order. Ironically, if the game's played as the rules direct, the Charioteer is the one who gets to see the least combat (because if you're the Charioteer, you don't get to play out fight scenes).

Fates #2

Second of three extracts. Note that in theosophical magic (and hance in the magic scheme of Chariot) physical bilocation is considered impossible.

Fates #1

More extracts. This time, the first of the Fates. A couple more later in the week.

That Relationship Mechanic

Ok, so I've wanted to include a relationship mechanic in Chariot from the beginning. I like relationship mechanics. The question is, how do you do them? Dogs in the Vineyard, which is still one of my favourite games, gives you dice for doing things if you can bring in a relationship, as does Monsters and Other Childish Things, in a slightly different manner. I wasn't sure that I wanted it to work exactly like that. Vampire and its siblings, for which I wrote, well, quite a lot have a set of optional "people you know" stats, Allies, Contacts, Retainers and so on. I felt that was a little too vague, too easy to drop.

This is what I settled on. Feedback is welcome.

Stations in Life #3: Soldiers and Slaves

A warrior of Mentis, City of the Blue Women

Third and final social classes extract. Today Soldiers and Slaves. 

Stations in Life #2

A Nun of the AkâshicCollege.

Second of three extracts on Social Stations. Today, Priests. 

Stations in Life #1

The Seven of Pentacles: Craft.

So it's been a while but you need to know that Chariot is nearly, so nearly done. It's on course for the playtest document to be out in December and the Kickstarter to launch in early January.

I thought I'd share some of the playtest draft this week, and since the most work I've done  on it has been in character creation, well.

So your character in Chariot has a culture, and I've written about cultures at length already, a social station (that is, the economic or social class into which your character was born) and a Fate (the good bit). This week, I'd highlight some of the social stations, which include Citizen, Mystic, Noble, Nomad, Outcast, Priest, Proletarian, Soldier and Slave.