Category: Sagas of the Icelanders: Actual Play

I had to improvise a custom move for a raid in a village. The Huscarl took the Child with him on the raid as a rite of passage. I gave them this custom move for the raid.

Roll + young, on 10+ take 2, on 7-9 take 1

Take the village (must take twice to conquer the village)

Distinguish yourself with honor

Protect the other from suffering terrible harm

Protect yourself from terrible harm

I asked them to roll and make their choice in private.

The Child chose Take the village.

The Huscarl chose Take the village and… Distinguish yourself.

We all expected he would protect the Child.

The Huscarl survived the suffered harm.

The Child died. Rolled a 3.

What do you say, was it a bad custom move?

Last week I played last week my first session of Sagas as MC – with 4 players: man, woman, hauscarl and child. The players loved it: they’re in love with the spirit and atmosphere of the game, and their characters.

And now we have a problem.

They liked it so much that they invited another two players for the next session, so I will have to juggle six of them.

And I didn’t want to say no, because both of the new players are relatively new to RPGs and sounded so excited to try this out, that I didn’t want to turn them down (the campaign might last several months and it would be a bummer for the potential new players to have to wait so long).

I explained to them that they will have to do with less time under the spotlight, since we’re going to be a little too many at the table, but they’re all fine with that.

In this regard, I have to say I am a lucky MC: my players, when someone is not present in a scene, they do not play with phones, do not chat, but just listen to the others’ players adventures with interest.

So I hope this is not going to be an issue.

So… Does anyone have any suggestions on running the game with six players?

(besides bringing a very large paper for the relationships map)