What Will I Need To PLay Legendary

WHAT WILL I NEED TO PLAY LEGENDARY?

You’ll need

  • a character sheet
  • A set of polyhedral dice, including either a set of d100 dice or two different colored d10 dice
  • At least one person willing to take on the role of Monitor, a special type of player role that coordinates the setting and fiction for everyone and everything besides Legends

GAME SETUP

The process of playing Legendary starts with the characters and the backdrop that they will play in. Groups of players and the Monitor must come together to decide what exactly that backdrop is.

This preparatory process is sometimes called a “session zero,” where the gameplay involves these Group Decisions and Character Creation. The Monitor may have some of these decisions in mind for a prewritten adventure, or they may improvise a story on the fly.

This is part of the process explained fully in Section 2.0 - Party and Legend Creation

Group Decisions include:

  • Setting Details - after reading a brief setting primer, decide what elements of the game are most interesting and focus on those. Answer a few crucial questions about the setting so that all players are on the same page
  • Party Commonality - What brings the Legends together? Are they soldiers fighting together in a dismal warzone? Members of the same ideological faction? Hapless refugees just trying to survive a disaster?
  • Party Power Level - how many Path Points will be used in character creation? Will everyone be the same, or is it acceptable to have a disparity between Legends?

Legend Creation includes:

  • Species/Background: In settings with species other then humans, will they be an alien, human, AI, or something else?
  • Heritage and Identity: What is your Legend’s heritage, culture, sexual orientation, and gender identity?
  • Developing starting Bonds: Who were the most important people in your Legend’s earliest life?
  • Home: What planet, colony, city, nation, or station is your character from?
  • LifePath: the journey that your Legend has weaved through their life up to the moment of play
  • Goals: what does your Legend hope to achieve?