5. Workshop week 5 - RPG Board Game

In workshop at week 5, I learned about the mechanics of RPG game. It was not the one that is visualized on the computer screen, but it was a board game!

At first I could not imagine of how this game was going to play with paper and dice. Because I knew that an RPG game involves character selection, equipment selection, purchasing items, character appearance, and last but not least a complex calculation for character's status

Here is the game that my friends and I played during the workshop. We formed a group and then the lecturer passed me a form of character specification, as well as a bundle of paper listing the game mechanics such as list of monsters, list of items or equipment, in-game rules, as well as the game story line.

Game title: Microlite20 Purest Essence

Created by: Robin V. Stacey, Darrell King, and Al Kombach

Players have to choose a character, and fill a character form to set up the character's name, height, status, skills, as well as equipment.
There are 4 types of character with 4 different races.

1. Classes: 
• Fighters
• Rogues
• Mages
• Clerics
2. Races:
• Humans
• Elves
• Dwarves
• Halflings

Afterwards, players have to set up the character's status(Strength, Dexterity, Mind) and skills by following the given rule. 

Last but not least, players have to purchase several equipment using the given credits/money.

After the characters are set, then my group members and I tried to play the game. However, it was not really working well since we played using dices and it also required a frequent calculation.