Friday 1 September 2017

Harry Potter And The Game of Roleplaying

Today, Albus Severus Potter starts at Hogwart’s School of Wizardry and Witchcraft.

We’ll never see an official Harry Potter RPG (the closest we’re likely to get is the Miniature Game from Knight Models, due, um, sometime) which is a shame because bookish kids willing to learn spell lists in Latin are the ideal target for an intro RPG. But Wizard School is easy enough to do DIY. The tricky part would be emulating the shift from little first year adventures full of jokes to world-shaking battles with high body counts. (J.K. Rowling doesn’t even manage this entirely smoothly, as anyone who stifled a laugh at the tragic end of Deathly Hallows Part One can attest.)

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