Game Design Week 5 Workshop

Today in workshop, we studied about elements of RGP board games. It includes making character, understanding the rules and regulation, skills, purchasing equipments and weapons, and defining the character characteristic.

First of all, I personally think that RPG games are only those video type of games, which we able see the characters move visually. However, today I learned something new, which is learning to play RPG board games.

Description

Title : Microlite20 Purest Essence

Created by : Robin V. Stacey, Darrell King, and Al Krombach

Stats: Strengh, Dexterity, Mind

Races: Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Halflings

Classes: Fighters, Rogues, Mage, Clerics

The game documentation also includes rules and regulations, level advancement, monsters list, equipments list, adventuring equipments and gears, spell lists, and guide to game master. In this game, we are allowed to create our own magic skills and other stuffs.

This game also provides character sheet which is pretty cool. We could keep track of our money (wealth), characters specifications and descriptions, weapons and equipments, skill rank, and character statistics.

The game was fun at the first time, we are allowed to choose our desired characters details. We also purchased weapons and equipment. However, when it gets to play the game, the game master was often confused on understanding the game play. It was also complicated when everything needs to be calculated using dice. As the matter of fact, some needs to be calculated in different type dice. For example, we to calculate the Hit Points, we need 6-sided dice. However, when it comes to calculating the attack of monsters, we need some type of dice. Depends of the monster, there are some monsters which need 8-sided dice and 10-sided dice.