Byzantium: Nightmares Undreamed Of

Recruitment | Re-Recruitment | OOC | IC

Player Characters

• Tomás the Red-Handed Bastard, Fighter, Init +1, Speed 8, AC 13, Disposition 8/8, Saber attack +3, Sling attack +3, Aura of Intimidation
• Amata, Shadowsneak, Spells 3/3, Init +1, Speed 8, AC 13, Disposition 6/6, Psychic Armor 5/5, sword attack +0, dagger attack +0, Precognition, Willpower 10/12
• Stanles Lear, Spellslinger, Spells 4/4, Init +2, Speed 9, AC 13, Disposition 5/5, Psychic Armor 5/5, rapier attack +0, Pistol attack, Wizard Sword attack +4 with X damage, Imbuement: Aura of Deadliness
• Ren Thephanos, Blood Caster, Spells 3/3, Init +0, Speed 7, AC X, Disposition 11/11, Psychic Armor 8/8, composite bow attack +0, bastard sword attack +0, Imbuement of Removing Intoxicants

Sample Byzantium Character Sheet

Characters Lost in Nightmare

Name	Align	Profession	Hit Die	Cha	Dex	Fer	Hlth	Int	Will	Social Class	Motivation	Background	Defining Aspect	Secret
Tomás the Red-Handed Bastard	Neutral	Fighter	d8	04	13	15	13	07	11	10	get free of this curse	Bourgeois Bastard Born of Ambition	I Work Oddjobs in This Mad City I Love	Help, I’ve Fallen / Can’t Get Out!
Cypress Kamran	Chaotic	Battle Wizard	d8	09	08	17	09	15	10	08	for freedom	The Wild Consumed Me, Fought Me, Protected Me	I may be Learned, but / Bound as my Puppets	Under/Mutable Flesh Slps/Beast
Amata	Chaotic	Shadowsneak	d6	11	13	11	11	13	12	08	defiant survival	A Slave to My Birth	Agent of Change, One Step at a Time	The Stars Know My Name
Stanles Lear	Neutral	Spellslinger	d6	10	17	11	11	13	05	16	professionally hated	State-Sponsored War Wizard	Spells and Pistols at Sunrise	No/Accident / Sober/Once
Ren Thephanos	Chaotic	Blood Caster	d6	11	11	11	14	15	09	13	FAME	A Rebel Heart	All the Nightmares are but a Stage	Risky Business

NPCs

• Ghazil Khan | post | description | A not unimportant minor vassal of the Duchess of the Three Winds. Baronet of something, though he prefers the Eastern titles. Something to do with ships and artichokes, that delicacy within the City.

• Cypress' Master | first appearance | She's wearing her human form today, her black hair long now, almost to her waist. It's pretty. She's always pretty, even when she's not human.

Notable Posts

• On the Subject of Chaos in Society, including setting information for the game
• On the Subject of Culture in Byzantium
• What Is Byzantium?
• Some notes on Encumbrance
• Blue OOC blocks vs Hidden sblocks
• On weapons and kit in the City

House Rules

Chargen

• Players who lack any 13s or better in the starting attribute array for their character may either swap one set of attributes (per normal) or advance one of their Primary Attributes to 13.

Contacts

You each start play with a number of Contacts = 1 + CHA modifier (negative modifiers result in bonus Contacts automatically beginning on the lower end of the Reaction table). You can declare your unused Contacts at any time during play. You will have the opportunity to make additional Contacts in play, and can make a Between Adventures move in some extended downtime situations to generate more open Contacts if your current open Contacts are exhausted. When you activate a Contact, I'll roll against the Reaction and Seeing a Man About a Dog tables (TNU 137-138) to determine their current opinion of you and their ability to render the aid you desire. (With the exception that free Contacts generated by negative CHA will at best have a neutral Reaction).

Equipment

Backpacks take up one of the encumbering item slots, grant a free encumbering item slot, and can carry up to your allowed encumbrance. e.g. A backpack takes up an encumbering item slot, but you could carry a musical instrument inside it for free, all of your small items, and another three encumbering items (assuming you don't have any other encumbering items).

Spells

Variations are a new feature in The Nameless Grimoire. I'll be treating Variations as a variation on the spell that can be cast spontaneously, if the spell is mastered and memorized.

Imbuements: You may select one spell you have mastered, and receive a narrative effect for possessing mastery in it that we negotiate. So, for instance, selecting Open as your Imbuement might mean that your character can always open small, unlocked containers within 10' of them with the motion of a finger. Selecting Perfect Orientation might mean that your character can always orient to true north and the direction 'up'. Characters will have the opportunity to acquire additional Imbuements, both as a result of attaining new specific levels and through narrative devices.