BEAN RPG solo adventure

[Billiam Babble]

(Another x-post from the blog)

The Cellars of Castle Cassoulet
(purchased copy)

Solo gamebook writer Sid Orpin teams up with game designer and illustrator Jeff Freels to create...

A solo adventure text which using the D2 based BEAN! system ...  employing 75 sections (plus a page of wandering monsters)

containing...

ZOMBEANS 

and
GOBLEANS!

A mere $2! Cheap, silly, witty, love it.

That is all.

[MortiS-the-Lost]

D2 based system? do elaborate please

[seanpatrick]

Just getting back into BEAN! this week.

The D2 system involves 3 basic stats (Body, Mind & Spirit, averaging 3 to 4 at starting level) which determine how good you are at stuff.  Your enemies have stats too and traps/puzzles/challenges have difficulty ratings.

To resolve a situation you roll (or otherwise produce) the amount of D2 scores represented by your stats to attain a challenge rating or contest against an enemy stat roll.

How you produce these rolls is up to you.  I am boring so I just roll D6's and keep anything of 4+ but the recommended method is to paint and varnish beans (fitting with the game theme) with +/ - on each side (or 1/0, tick/cross, boo/hooray or whatever you think is most fun in your group).

It is a great fun game, very silly and a good starting point to introduce kids into the hobby.  It is also open-ended enough to make more complex rules if you wanted to.  Tunnels & Trolls creator Ken St. Andre loved the game and has written adventures for it.

Hope this helps.  Give it a go if you fancy something a bit different one day...

[seanpatrick]

Eaap!  Just seen how old this thread is.  Hope someone is still reading ;)