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How to play Lost Roads of Lociam

Hi everyone, this is a special how to play episode of Firebreathing Kittens. I’m the game master for an upcoming session using the rules for Lost Roads of Lociam. This episode is a summary of what I learned after reading the rule book. Hopefully this will be a handy guide for how to play for my players, will help me organize myself, and will be useful for you listeners, too, who are looking to play Lost Roads of Lociam yourselves.

I’ll organize this how to play guide into sections.

• Every roll is a d100

• In opposed contests the greatest difference wins

• Ten traits

• Gain 1 experience per trait if succeed with that trait during the session

• Professions

• Weapon and armor proficiencies increase your martial trait

• Items

• Exertion reduces trait by 10 to roll a guaranteed 2

• Status effects reduce traits

• Ranged combat

Lost Roads of Lociam is a d100 based tabletop roleplaying game system. Roll dice to randomly generate a number between 1 and 100. A 100 is a botch resulting in personal injury. A natural 1 is a success the rule book calls almost divine in its flawless execution. For any other number between 1 and 100, subtract the roll from the trait. You succeed if the difference is equal to or greater than the task difficulty secretly set by the Game Master before you rolled. Tell your result to your Game Master so they can consult a difficulty table and tell you if you succeed or fail.

For example, your trait is 80. You roll a 20. You tell your Game Master that your trait minus your roll equals 60. The Game Master looks at the table and sees that a 60 succeeds at a "hard" task, which needed a 50 or more. But a 60 fails at an "impossible" task, which needed a 75 or more. The Game Master tells you if you succeed or fail, depending on how difficult the task was set before you rolled.

When you are opposing someone else, for example in combat or arm wrestling or horse racing or sneaking, you both roll dice and compare to see who has the greater difference between their trait and roll. Both people roll a number between 1 and 100, and subtract it from their trait. The person with the greatest difference wins. If both people have a negative dif