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Intriguing Options Volume 1: Rules + Story

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Greetings, eager intriguer! Be not beleaguered! For in this volume, we offer players and GMs an array of intriguing options to add variety, depth, and dimension to any game of Honor + Intrigue. Do not think of this as a book of rules… they’re more like… guidelines on how to adapt your campaign in various ways.

This volume focuses on giving your rules and story options for the base Honor + Intrigue game. Volumes 2-4 help you take your game to the stars or into the realms of high fantasy. Or you can get them all together (with some extra material) in the Tome of Intriguing Options.

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Features of this Volume: 

  • Rules Fixes & Clarifications (half page)
  • Equipment Updates (1.5 pages, includes new equipment and reprinted from other modules)
  • Random Adventure Seed Generator (2 pages of random tables to come up with random plots, important NPCs, crimes, major events, duels, interesting locales, maguffins, antagonists & motives along with a twist for the plot). 
  • Random Overland Travel Encounters (4 pages of 100 possible random events that can happen while the PCs are on the road + 1 page on how to make new ones)
  • New Rules Options & Alternatives (25 pages of completely new options to introduce to your group including: 
    • Barroom Brawls & Nonlethal Damage
    • (Better) Random Character Generation
    • (Better) Fixed Damage
    • Gambits (a new type of Minor Action especially good for creative players)
    • Boss Monster Rules 
    • Defend Thyself! (rules for PCs to roll using their Defense)
    • Saves using Defense + Quality
    • Unusual Weapon Proficiency
    • Cinematic Moments (including Epic Battle Scenes)
    • Timers (like the Countdown Die)
    • New Task Rolls (Montage Task Rolls, Group Task Rolls, and Extended Task Rolls)
    • Alternate Chase Scene mechanics
    • Run for your Lives (running desperate escape scenes)
    • Splitting the Party
    • Optional (yet simple) Encumbrance Rules 
    • Horror Adventures & the Climate of Fear
    • Initiative Options (two alternate ways to handle initiative with an emphasis on speed)
    • Language Barrier Checks (makes the difference between Basic and Fluent more important as well as using related languages)
    • Reputation Points (a reward in addition to Advancement or treasure for PCs that determines their standing within a faction)
    • Option for Polyhedral Weapon Damage (break out those d8s and d12s!)
    • Slower Healing Option (makes the combat grittier and more perilous)
    • Troupe Style Play: The Vanguard and the Rearguard (how to handle games a large irregular roster of PCs)
    • Group Advancement Points (makes it easier to add new PCs to the group and easier to track Advancement for large groups)
  • Future Volumes (1 page telling a bit about future volumes of Intriguing Options like Volume 2: Blasters + Intrigue, 3: Nonhuman Characters, 4: Spells + Spellcasters, and a potential other project on Horrifying + Fantastic Creatures). 
  • Printouts (4 pages, 2 color and 2 black and white featuring the "Chase Scene Chart" and Pass/Fail Initiative sheet meant to be printed out and written on with a dry erase marker). 

 

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Robert H March 24, 2023 4:11 pm UTC
How much of the content of this supplement is useful if you have the updated version of H+I?
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Chris R March 24, 2023 4:15 pm UTC
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Nearly all of it. The only material from this that was incorporated into the H+I rulebook was the "Rules Fixes and Clarifications" section, which is only a half page. In the section of "Features in this Volume" in the item description, it breaks down each section by page count so you can see how much of each type of content it contains.
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Robert H March 24, 2023 5:52 pm UTC
Okie dokie, I will go on a spending spree I guess. Thanks for quick response.
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ROBERT D August 19, 2022 7:38 pm UTC
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It might be a good idea to create an updated Arms & Armour resource sheet to add in the extra weapons and armour from this book.
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Chris R September 30, 2022 3:48 am UTC
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That is a good idea!
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ROBERT D August 19, 2022 6:57 pm UTC
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Hi Chris

Any chance you might be able to put together a POD companion that combines the Duelists Guide with this and upcoming supplements?
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Chris R September 30, 2022 5:34 am UTC
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As a matter of fact, I have been thinking of doing exactly that.
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Chris R April 19, 2023 5:24 pm UTC
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We've begun a mailing list for the Tome of Intriguing Options. You can join directly here or read the added PDF. https://forms.gle/QyC8Z5VvzjbWv9ZE8
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Chris R July 05, 2023 7:07 pm UTC
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Good news, Robert! The Kickstarter for the Tome of Intriguing Options has begun. It contains everything in Intriguing Options Volumes 1-4, the rules from the Duelist's Guide plus more! More dueling styles, more weapons, more vehicles, more high-tech gadgets, more magic items!
You can check it out at tinyurl.com/IntriguingOptions
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Nicholas L August 08, 2022 1:07 am UTC
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Any chance for a black & white printer-friendly version?
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Chris R August 08, 2022 3:15 am UTC
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On this one, I made a mistake when laying it out and forgot to make the background as a removable "layer". I will try to revisit that and see if I can make that an option for this one.
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An E July 23, 2022 8:10 pm UTC
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PDF page 6, second Duel column, "6-8 Duelist's Choice (of melee weapon)" and "8-9 Daggers." Is it supposed to be 6-7 or is daggers supposed to be just 9?
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Chris R July 25, 2022 6:13 am UTC
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Oh, thanks for catching that! It is just supposed to be 9.
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Lorenzo M July 17, 2022 3:56 pm UTC
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Small thing, but page 29 repeats three consecutive times, with the same text
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Chris R July 18, 2022 5:46 pm UTC
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That is very strange. The version I downloaded 7/14/22 looks just fine, but you are right. I just downloaded it and it repeated page 29 two times and seems to have deleted the last 2 pages (printer-friendly versions of the two previous charts). I will look into it and see what the issue could be.
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Chris R July 18, 2022 6:01 pm UTC
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I have re-uploaded the file, and attempted to delete the version with the repeated pages. Unfortunately, it seems that the correct version was uploaded, but the version with the repeated pages still was not deleted.
For sake of clarity, the corrected version filename is (Intriguing Options Volume 1- Rules + Story) and the defective version filename that I cannot seem to delete is (Intriguing_Options_Vol_1.pdf)
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Yevgeniy Y July 14, 2022 5:31 am UTC
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downloads for this product (i’ve tested it’s this product only) are currently failing for me with 403
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Chris R July 14, 2022 2:30 pm UTC
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So even I had trouble downloading it! But I noticed that Drivethru had a button that said something like "having trouble using the 1-click download tool? Click this link to use the classic mode instead" and it worked once I did that.

I also noticed that once a product is purchased, if you go to the product page for that product there is a link that says "You Have Purchased This Title, Click to get it!". If you click that link, it will also download without issue.
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Robert H July 13, 2022 10:34 pm UTC
Will there be an integrated/updated version of the core rules at some point?
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Chris R July 16, 2022 3:59 am UTC
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Why, yes. It is available now. Just redownload a version with the word "Revised" in the filename. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/99286/Honor--Intrigue
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