Plot, Setting and Hooks*
*The Plot kind, not the Vartach kind This is part of a series of posts about game design, and how we see Five Oaths from the event team side. The distinction between “Plot” and “Setting”…
I’m getting too old for this shit…Retirement in Five Oaths
We wanted to take this opportunity to clarify a couple of things about how we see the retirement process, and what we’ll be doing with it, particularly as the first characters reach the point of…
Red Lights and Talismans
Red Lights Many people have been using red light sources at our events to navigate or read lammies at night without disrupting everyone’s night vision. We think this is a great idea, and the event…
Making the Case For Slowing Down Your Spell Vocals
This post has been written with Five Oaths in mind, but can be utilised in any system which requires certain vocalisations to be made when casting spells. This isn’t quite an official rules post- More…
Oathbreaking, The Five Oaths, and Replacing Officers
Becoming a galloglach involves swearing five oaths: The First Oath is to the Réig — to hold your loyalty to the Réig above all other loyalties, to heed their command above that of any other,…
Threat and Difficulty in Five Oaths LRP
Larp is a very broad medium: Many kinds of games exist out there. In the interests of clarity and transparency, the Five Oaths team have been working on some short essays on the game design…