Lone Horizons

I'm playing  Thousand Year Old Vampire  by Tim Hutchings. Check out the  introduction  or  character creation . I'm not listing the results of every dice roll but I am including the text of the prompts I land on so you can see how I interpreted them. The prompts you experience are determined by deducting a D6 roll from a D10 roll and moving forward or back that many prompts. Raynar the Vampire will die when he runs out of skills and resources. Events Prompt 35 (1359) You encounter the descendant of an old foe and help  them in some way. Why did you do this? Check a  Skill. Create a mortal Character. "I have no memory of the next few years after I destroyed Mar on the riverbank. I continued living as I had, in the secret chamber within the house in Lubeck. I didn't see Gytha again, I suppose she cared for Mar and had cut ties with me. Some years later the Blaug family sold the house to an English lord by the name of Guy Warren. When he moved in I heard ...

I'm playing  Thousand Year Old Vampire  by Tim Hutchings. Check out the  introduction  or  character creation . I'm not listing the results of every dice roll but I am including the text of the prompts I land on so you can see how I interpreted them. The prompts you experience are determined by deducting a D6 roll from a D10 roll and moving forward or back that many prompts. Raynar the Vampire will die when he runs out of skills and resources. Events Prompt 28 (Second reading) (1342) What peril do they pull down upon you? (The returned mortal). Create a new enemy Character, mortal or immortal. Check a Skill or lose a Resource. “I continued living in the secret chamber for some time as some relatives of the owners inherited it and sold it to another family, that of a local magistrate by the name of Pieter Blaug. I fell back into the old ways of living apart from mortals, leaving through a secret passage to feed each night, wander the streets a bit and return home...

  I'm playing  Thousand Year Old Vampire  by Tim Hutchings. Check out the  introduction  or  character creation . I'm not listing the results of every dice roll but I am including the text of the prompts I land on so you can see how I interpreted them. The prompts you experience are determined by deducting a D6 roll from a D10 roll and moving forward or back that many prompts. Raynar the Vampire will die when he runs out of skills and resources. Content warning: This game necessarily features quite a lot of disturbing stuff, mainly violence. Events Prompt 28 (1239) A long dead mortal Character returns. What do they want from you? How have they survived death? You only recognize them if you still have a related Memory. Check a Skill. “I had built up a sizeable fortune in Lubeck over the years. Even though the Germans thought me blind due to my pure white eyes I was able to convince people I could read letters and numbers by touch alone; the fools. I now empl...

  I'm playing  Thousand Year Old Vampire  by Tim Hutchings. Check out the  introduction  or  character creation . I'm not listing the results of every dice roll but I am including the text of the prompts I land on so you can see how I interpreted them. The prompts you experience are determined by deducting a D6 roll from a D10 roll and moving forward or back that many prompts. Raynar the Vampire will die when he runs out of skills and resources. Events Prompt 16 (AD 1180) Some mortals have banded together to hunt you, well-armed and wise to your tricks. How do you defeat or evade them? Create a mortal hunter related to one of your checked Skills. Check a Skill. "In Canterbury I worked as a night watchman at the Cathedral for a few years. I felt uneasy entering its hallowed grounds but God did not stop me, regardless. The murdered archbishop had become a martyr in the eyes of the people, and many began travelling to the city to pay their respects. One such p...

I'm playing Thousand Year Old Vampire by Tim Hutchings. Check out the introduction or character creation . I'm not listing the results of every dice roll but I am including the text of the prompts I land on so you can see how I interpreted them. The prompts you experience are determined by deducting a D6 roll from a D10 roll and moving forward or back that many prompts. Raynar the Vampire will die when he runs out of skills and resources. Events Prompt 1 (AD 1066) In your blood-hunger you destroy someone close to you. Kill a mortal Character. Create a mortal if none are available. Take the skill Bloodthirsty. “After the fiend Laiesse revived me and told me of my new demonic nature and slithered away into the night, I refused to believe him, returning home to the cottage covered in blood. However upon seeing Gytha with my new pure white eyes, I immediately set upon her and tore open her throat, draining her of blood. Fully realising what I now was, I hid her under some rocks o...

Character Creation I decided to start my vampire off about a thousand years in the past to give him a good chunk of history to witness. I'm going to list what I wrote down in the session and not stop to explain everything, but hopefully this will give a good overview of what it's like to play the game. First I had to create my character, create three NPCs who he knows at the start of the game, his memories and associated experiences, skills - completely made up by me, not chosen from a list in the rulebook - and resources. For some reason I strongly felt like playing this in the first person rather than my usual third person. Raynar Harling Born in AD 1032 in the village of Croghyrst (Now Crowhurst ), East Sussex, England. His generation experienced Viking invasions, the loss of England by the Anglo-Saxons to the invading Normans from France at the Battle of Hastings, along with lots of upheavals in culture and religion. I decided to begin his story with him cut down and left f...

The Game Thousand Year Old Vampire is a narrative-based solo RPG by Tim Hutchings in which you create a character born in the distant past, and then born again to darkness as a blood sucking immortal. I've only played one session of it so far and it's already proved to be challenging, dark and almost upsetting as your vampire slowly begins to lose their humanity and do terrible things to survive in a world that has no place for them. You can read all about the game on Hutchings's site above, but the main focus is memories. You begin the game with several memories from your mortal life (which contain up to three experiences each, like sub-memories), and space in your mind for five in total. As the years go by these will change and become corrupted until you lose all sense of who you were in life and exist only as a demonic caricature of your original self. The graphic design of the rulebook itself is lovely and really conveys the main theme of the game, containing scraps of...