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The
MounTain
WiTch
The
MounTain
WiTch
timothy kleinert
The Mountain Witch
©2005 Timothy Kleinert
Illustrations ©2005 W. Don Flores, used with permission
The Mountain Witch is typeset with a variety of DIN fonts using a
Macintosh Powerbook G4 Aluminum 1.25GHz and Adobe InDesign CS2
Book design by Joshua Newman of the glyphpress
conTenTs
Foreword i
introduction 1
Mechanics 15
character creation 63
The adventure 89
Playing the Game 113
appendix i:
Further Reading
128
appendix ii:
Japanese Names and Titles
134
appendix iii:
Playtesting & Reviewing Credits
142
Foreword
T
HE
M
OUNTAIN
W
ITCH
was originally written for the
Son of
Iron Game Chef
(IGC) RPG design contest
1
held at
the Forge
website in April of 2004. The contest, which was organized
and judged by Mike Holmes, challenged designers to write a
(complete) fantasy RPG in under a week that incorporated at
least three of four following elements: ice, dawn, island, and
assault.
Early inspiration for the game came from another contest
entry, Jonathon Walton’s
Seadog Tuxedo.
2
What impressed
me about the design was how the characters – pirate penguins
– seemed to embody the contest elements of ice, island, and
assault. As this seemed like a good contest strategy, I set out
to do the same.
The obvious choice was to make the characters warriors
(assault) of some sort. Inspiration then hit while listening to
Wu Tang Clan. The characters could be martial artists – no!...
Samurai – wait!... Ronin. Masterless warriors from the island
of the rising sun (dawn). Not bad.
While brainstorming ways to incorporate the various contest
elements, I was reminded of the famous line, “No man is an
island.” I wanted the characters to be socially and emotionally
isolated or “cold” (ice) towards one another. (The concept of the
outcast ronin it
perfectly with this.)
Fresh on my mind
was the idea of a
“trust” mechanic
1
www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=10762
2 www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?p=115462#115462
3
www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?p=112186#112186.
Interestingly,
T
HE
M
OUNTAIN
W
ITCH
was not the only
IGC entry to use Rich’s trust idea. Alexander Cherry’s
Frigid Bitch (www.twistedconfessions.com/atheneum/frigid.php) also
uses a version of the mechanic.
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