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THE FANTASY ROLE-PLAYING GAME OF ADVENTURE
AND DEATH FROM DROWNING AND FALLING
By
Jason Morningstar
BENEFIcIARY
All proceeds from sales of this game, after taxes and production
costs, will be donated to
ORBIS International.
The mission of
ORBIS is to eliminate avoidable blindness and restore sight in the
developing world, where 90% of the world’s blind live. They do this
in part by operating a completely awesome flying eye hospital in
a converted DC-10.
Visit ORBIS on the Web at
www.orbis.org
to learn more. If you
bought this game, you’ve already helped them out!
cOPYRIGHT NOTIcE
The
DROWNING AND FALLING ROLE-PLAYING GAME
text
is copyright 2006 Jason Morningstar. Additional bits of fiction,
where attributed, are copyright their respective authors. The cover
and interior art are copyright their respective artists.
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-
NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. To view a copy of this
license, visit
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5
or send a letter to Creative Commons, 543 Howard Street, 5th
Floor, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. Feel free to share
and modify this game, but consider giving ORBIS some loot if you
do.
The art is expressly not Creative Commons licensed—please see
the
About the Artists
section to contact these guys if you like
their work.
cREDITS
Off-hand Inspirational comment:
Andy Kitkowski
Game Design:
Jason Morningstar
Book Design:
Patrick M. Murphy, a Mad Irishman Production
Production Editor:
Steve Segedy
copy Editor:
Autumn Winters
Art Director:
Remi Treuer
cover Art:
Jason Turner
Interior Art:
John Hill, Eric Poole and Dalton Sharp
character Design:
John Hill, Eric Poole, Dalton Sharp and Remi
Treuer
With major contributions by Joshua BishopRoby, Piers Brown, Alex
Fradera, Christian Griffen, Bryan Hansel, Maura Hogan, Scott
Morningstar, Clinton R. Nixon, Dev Perkayastha, and Eric and Lisa
Provost.
Additional ideas and pithy suggestions from the good people of
story-games.com,
including Brendan Adkins, Adam Biltcliffe,
Eric J. Boyd, Stuart Broz, Paul Czege, Chris Goodwin, John Harper,
Jonas Karlsson, Andy Kitkowski, Levi Kornelsen, Judson Lester, Ben
Lehman, Tony Lower-Basch, Matt Machell, Dave Michael, Bradley
Robins, Jeffrey Schecter, Brennan Taylor, Graham Walmsley, and
Fred Wolke.
Second printing, March 2007
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Drowning anD Falling
TABLE OF cONTENTS
Introduction ..........................................................................6
Preparing For The Game ........................................................6
The Saga Of Fyren Cloudfloater [Inset].........................8
PART ONE: MEN AND MAGIc ................................... 10
Making Up a Guy ...............................................................10
Generating Your Traits ...................................................10
Helpful Traits.................................................................11
Harmful Traits ...............................................................13
What’s Up with the Weird Combos? [Inset].................13
Hit Points: Staying Alive .................................................14
Alignment: Staying Focused............................................14
Character Class: Staying Classy......................................14
The Birth of Gwarl [Inset] ..........................................16
Magic ...............................................................................16
General Spells ..............................................................17
Good Spells .................................................................17
Evil Spells .....................................................................18
Prayers ..............................................................................19
Good Prayers ...............................................................20
Evil Prayers...................................................................21
Advancement and Not-Advancement .....................................22
Challenges .........................................................................23
Gwarl Levels Up and Down [Inset] .............................24
Resolving Challenges .....................................................25
Crushing Failure ............................................................26
Getting Hurt .......................................................................27
Gwarl Gets Hurt [Inset] ............................................27
What If a Character Gets Strangled or Burned? [Inset] .28
PART
TWO:
UNDERWORLD
AND
WILDERNESS
ADVENTURES .......................................................... 29
Creating Challenges ............................................................29
Making Your Challenges Exciting, Dangerous, and Cool ....30
What Additional Cards Can Do ......................................30
The Extra-Crazy Challenge .............................................31
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