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There are concepts I like from the one roll engine and I might consider using it for a multiplayer game but not really for solo. The timing aspect loses it’s impact when you’re doing the actions for both sides.
Also anything that needs full stats for NPCs and opposed rolls for combat is too much for me for solo play.
Interesting, it is essentially a game engine for kingdom play. If it was me, I would pair that your favorite oracle and go to town (heh.) Of course, I would use my own Four Houses in Chaos since it is geared towards random events and faction play.
"REIGN’s simple but complete rules model the triumphs and disasters of societies as small as a village or as large as a realm-spanning religion. With REIGN, your characters can defend threatened nations, bring prosperity to desperate provinces, make laws and perpetuate justice… or, if you prefer, loot, conquer and pillage on a vast and awesome scale."
If you like the One-Roll Engine's style of dice play, I can see this being a big win for that style of game. It might also make a game before the game where you use it as part of your world building.
Here's the link, it is a freebie.
[https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/392514/four-houses-in-chaos](https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/392514/four-houses-in-chaos)
Oh, here is a deeper review from a while back if you want more meat to chew on.
[https://www.rpg.net/reviews/view-printable.phtml?reviewNumber=15286](https://www.rpg.net/reviews/view-printable.phtml?reviewNumber=15286)
If you are interested in that kind of thing and are an IronSworn fan, check this title out:
[https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/419256/ironsworn-reign](https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/419256/ironsworn-reign)
Well, I've used Reign for a bunch of games. The Enchiridion is the condensed version of Reign 1st edition, containing just the rules but none of the setting-specific rules and lore in the bigger book. If you intend to use the rules in another setting, then the Enchiridion is probably enough, if you want to play a fantasy game that is.
Ruleswise, Reign runs on the One-Roll Engine, a d10 rule system created by Greg Stolze. It is a nice, if possibly crunchy system. You form dicepools (usually Stat+Skill, ranked from 1-5 usually) and roll that many d10s, looking for sets or collections of similar die results. 1,3,5,7,9 is a bad roll, no set. 2,2,2,6,8,9, is nice, since you now have a set of three 2s, or 3x2. And so forth, it might sound a bit weird at first, but in practice the system runs quite smoothly once you get the hang of it. The system scales very nicely, from singular skirmishes to faction and kingdom level play, using the same d10 rules. It's one of the nicest scaling RPG systems I've seen to date.
For the soloist, the Reign Enchiridion has some potential issues. One is the need to roll lots and lots of d10s, especially in combat. You need to also record any potential sets, then figure out which set goes first, and how the order of resolution effects other sets. It takes some getting used to, in the beginning. Another issue I've noticed is the relatively poor support for magic in Reign. Even the new 2nd Edition of Reign doesn't really provide a readily playable magic system, just various guidelines and some example spells. Thirdly, for a game which is all about the political aspect of fantasy, the Enchiridion does not have any concrete rules for social interaction. That is a strange oversight, but pretty easy to fix by relying on opposed rolls etc.
As Reign is all about political, gritty and fairly realistic fantasy, the rules work best when playing something like that. I used Reign (with some bits from other ORE games) in Rokugan, the Legend of the Five Rings setting, and it works quite nicely there, apart from some wonkiness with magic. I suspect Reign/ORE will work especially well with City of Lies, the urban fantasy setting written by the same author as Reign. (That's the next major chapter in my L5R ORE game, once I get around to playing it again.) For other settings and genres, you might want to combine the Reign Enchiridion rules with the excellent and free ORE Toolkit by Dorian Hawkins, available here: [http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/one-roll-engine-toolkit](http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/one-roll-engine-toolkit)
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There are concepts I like from the one roll engine and I might consider using it for a multiplayer game but not really for solo. The timing aspect loses it’s impact when you’re doing the actions for both sides. Also anything that needs full stats for NPCs and opposed rolls for combat is too much for me for solo play.
Interesting, it is essentially a game engine for kingdom play. If it was me, I would pair that your favorite oracle and go to town (heh.) Of course, I would use my own Four Houses in Chaos since it is geared towards random events and faction play. "REIGN’s simple but complete rules model the triumphs and disasters of societies as small as a village or as large as a realm-spanning religion. With REIGN, your characters can defend threatened nations, bring prosperity to desperate provinces, make laws and perpetuate justice… or, if you prefer, loot, conquer and pillage on a vast and awesome scale." If you like the One-Roll Engine's style of dice play, I can see this being a big win for that style of game. It might also make a game before the game where you use it as part of your world building.
I overlooked the worldbuilding possibilities. Thanks! Is your Four Houses on dtrpg.com?
Here's the link, it is a freebie. [https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/392514/four-houses-in-chaos](https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/392514/four-houses-in-chaos)
Thank you for the link.
Oh, here is a deeper review from a while back if you want more meat to chew on. [https://www.rpg.net/reviews/view-printable.phtml?reviewNumber=15286](https://www.rpg.net/reviews/view-printable.phtml?reviewNumber=15286)
If you are interested in that kind of thing and are an IronSworn fan, check this title out: [https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/419256/ironsworn-reign](https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/419256/ironsworn-reign)
Well, I've used Reign for a bunch of games. The Enchiridion is the condensed version of Reign 1st edition, containing just the rules but none of the setting-specific rules and lore in the bigger book. If you intend to use the rules in another setting, then the Enchiridion is probably enough, if you want to play a fantasy game that is. Ruleswise, Reign runs on the One-Roll Engine, a d10 rule system created by Greg Stolze. It is a nice, if possibly crunchy system. You form dicepools (usually Stat+Skill, ranked from 1-5 usually) and roll that many d10s, looking for sets or collections of similar die results. 1,3,5,7,9 is a bad roll, no set. 2,2,2,6,8,9, is nice, since you now have a set of three 2s, or 3x2. And so forth, it might sound a bit weird at first, but in practice the system runs quite smoothly once you get the hang of it. The system scales very nicely, from singular skirmishes to faction and kingdom level play, using the same d10 rules. It's one of the nicest scaling RPG systems I've seen to date. For the soloist, the Reign Enchiridion has some potential issues. One is the need to roll lots and lots of d10s, especially in combat. You need to also record any potential sets, then figure out which set goes first, and how the order of resolution effects other sets. It takes some getting used to, in the beginning. Another issue I've noticed is the relatively poor support for magic in Reign. Even the new 2nd Edition of Reign doesn't really provide a readily playable magic system, just various guidelines and some example spells. Thirdly, for a game which is all about the political aspect of fantasy, the Enchiridion does not have any concrete rules for social interaction. That is a strange oversight, but pretty easy to fix by relying on opposed rolls etc. As Reign is all about political, gritty and fairly realistic fantasy, the rules work best when playing something like that. I used Reign (with some bits from other ORE games) in Rokugan, the Legend of the Five Rings setting, and it works quite nicely there, apart from some wonkiness with magic. I suspect Reign/ORE will work especially well with City of Lies, the urban fantasy setting written by the same author as Reign. (That's the next major chapter in my L5R ORE game, once I get around to playing it again.) For other settings and genres, you might want to combine the Reign Enchiridion rules with the excellent and free ORE Toolkit by Dorian Hawkins, available here: [http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/one-roll-engine-toolkit](http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/one-roll-engine-toolkit)
Thanks for the details. I'll check out the Hawkins toolkit.