Consequence

Monster and Knight - Angelina Zhogina

This game features a small amount of "perma-death". Each player is allowed to create one Apprentice character, ever. If an Apprentice is killed or otherwise lost, from that point on, the player can only create Mercenary characters. This status is permanent, and carried across between sessions, between campaigns, forever. One player, one Apprentice, never another.

Players don't need to use their single Apprentice for the first character they make.

Apprentice

The discovery and attainment of spells is a costly, difficult and dangerous endeavour. The rewards still out-weigh the risks! Power to rival the gods, embedded in one's own mind, a crystalline weapon of thought with which to remake the world...

So, why then, would a Wizard go to all that trouble, to teach a spell to an Apprentice? Why put all that effort, to create a glorified errand-runner and potential future rival?

To find out, one need only ask the previous Apprentice.

Oh wait, you can't.

1. Blasted to smithereens
2. Melted by own bodily fluids
3. Indistinct gurgling from the flesh mound
4. Catapulted into sun
5. Crumbled to dust
6. Aged 100 years
7. Vomited up a clone, fought to death
8. Tree
9. Bones escaped
10. Blood-into-cheese
11. Endless sleep
12. Wolves
13. Thinks they are a teapot
14. Bees
15. Shrunk to size of a mouse, found by cat (very tiny closed-coffin funeral)
16. Pondered too hard, trapped in orb
17. Flattened
18. Stuck in time-loop
19. Seems fine, Wizard just shakes head sadly
20. Wizard died, Apprentice became Wizard, won't say what happened

Once a Wizard has an Apprentice though, there's usually an errand to send them on.

1. Fetch my good robes from my previous tower. No, there's no reason I'm not going to get them myself.
2. Take this weird creature in a jar and find some way to kill it.
3. Oh, that old thing? I borrowed it off a colleague. Some time ago. You should go give it back.
4. Just find some way to make yourself useful, I don't know.
5. Bread, milk, dragon blood, eggs.
6. Get out of here, I can't stand the sight of you... begone!

Apprentices start with:

• 1 spell, and any required components
• 5 useful items
• 1 backpack (to put items in)
• Boots
• No money
• 2 arms
• 2 legs (to put the boots on)
• 1 soul, completely their own, free of any sins

Mercenary

What's the difference between a Farmer, a Soldier, a Mercenary and a Bandit?

A Soldier is a Farmer after the harvest fails.

A Mercenary is a Soldier that hasn't been paid.

A Bandit is a Mercenary that still hasn't been paid...

Mercenaries start with:

• 1 weapon of choice
• 5 useful items
• 1 shield, or another useful item
• 1 backpack
• Boots
• No money
• 2 arms
• 2 legs
• 1 soul, completely their own, free of any (major) sins

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When rolling on the following tables, use any dice size from d4 to d30. Larger results may be a little weirder than the lower entries.

Useful Items

A new character knows how to use every Useful Item they start out with.

1. Dagger
2. Rope
3. Lantern
4. Shovel
5. Crowbar
6. Lockpicks
7. Axe
8. Bucket
9. Fishing rod
10. Hammer and nails
11. Bandages
12. Bomb
13. Spear
14. Grapple-hook
15. Glowing crystal
16. Towel
17. Pickaxe
18. Sewing kit
19. Pliers and wire
20. Potion
21. Beartrap
22. Telescope
23. Magnifying glass
24. Clock
25. Lodestone
26. Mortar and pestle
27. Lute
28. Mirror
29. Paper, quill, ink
30. Alchemist's tape

Spells

If you know a spell, you can always cast it. Always. However, there are likely to be unfortunate side-effects to the spell if you are:

Distracted, drunk, drugged, sleepy, wrestling, sick, poisoned, taking cover, bleeding, engaged in a battle of puissance with an enemy wizard, on fire, swimming, hand-cuffed, upside-down, inside-out, or dead.

Form

1. Create [Material]
2. Shape [Material]
3. Speak with [Material]
4. Enchant [Material]
5. [Material] Blast
6. Animate [Material]
7. Blessing of [Material]
8. Curse of [Material]
9. [Material] Form
10. Transmute [Material] to [Material]
11. Summon Creature of [Material] and [Material]
12. Destroy [Material]
13. Conjure [Material]
14. Command [Material]
15. [Material] Divination
16. Extract [Material]
17. Weapon of [Material]
18. Wall of [Material]
19. Sphere of [Material]
20. [Material] Shield
21. Teleport [Material]
22. Eye of [Material]
23. Plague of [Material]
24. Song of [Material] and [Material]
25. Cloud of [Material]
26. [Material] Fist
27. Endless [Material]
28. [Material] Steed
29. Sanctum of [Material]
30. [Material] Portal

Material

1. Fire
2. Water
3. Earth
4. Air
5. Metal
6. Plant
7. Light
8. Shadow
9. Flesh
10. Bone
11. Blood
12. Poison
13. Lightning
14. Ice
15. Glass
16. Void
17. Dream
18. Thought
19. Filth
20. Soul
21. Bug
22. Beast
23. Oil
24. Hair
25. Music
26. Thunder
27. Ink
28. Paper
29. Treasure
30. Magic