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Roll Player

Create your adventurer

A game about creating your hero instead of going adventuring with him, giving him all the necessary traits a hero needs - race, class, alignment, abilities, traits and equipment.

You receive a character card, use the male or female side, and also receive a character backstory card, a class card offering a choice of two professions with respective attribute goals, and an alignment card; each character belongs to a different race, which can influence the final attribute score.

The character board shows six rows of three slots each for attributes: Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma. It also carries areas for market cards where you place weapons, armor, traits and skills acquired for your character.

A round comprises four phases: 1. Roll - the starting player draws dice from the bag and places them on the initiative cards. 2. Dice selection - you select an initiative card and place its dice in a slot on your character board, take maybe gold and then can resolve the attribute action according to dice placement. 3. Market - you buy a market card for gold, there is a limit for the number of weapons; traits are adjusted and skills can be used immediately. 4. Clean-up.  

When all character boards are filled, you determine Reputation from completing attribute goals, class color, alignment, backstory, trait cards and armor cards.

Entertaining fun and very tactical for a dice game - you have a lot to consider: Which dice value do I want? Do I want the yellow die for gold? Where do I place the value to improve which attribute and to resolve its action? A well-working puzzle with fantasy flavor.

Players: 1-4

Age: 10+

Time: 90+

Designer: Keith Matejka

Artist: Luis Francisco, John Ariosa, Ralf Berszuck

Price: ca. 40 Euro

Publisher: Pegasus Spiele 2018

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: Dice, character creation

Users: With friends

Special: 1 player

Version: de

Rules: cn cz de en es fr it jp kr pt

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Well-working topic

Good mix of luck of the roll and planning

Starting cards determine your goals

Compares to:

First game of its kind, character creation in RPGs

Other editions:

Arclight (jp), Banana Games (cn), Gen X (es), Intrafin (fr), Ludofy (pt), Mandoo (kr), Ogry (pl), Raven Distribution (it), RexHry (cz), Thunderworks (en)

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0