Welcome back to the eighth part of my HârnMaster solo campaign. After the last part, I decided to do a character sheet for Moire, because I thought that a second character would come in handy and balance out Essryd’s skills a little. With both now as the protagonists, I have a good mix of melee and ranged combat but also someone who is really good at survival, trecking and … cooking.

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Things are escalating quickly in the Fiefdom of Nurien. Welcome back, dear reader! Today marks a very special episode of Essryd’s adventures on the Misty Ilse of Hârn. I always have a safety net below my characters when I do a solo campaign, and I always just let them perish when nothing else remains. This time I resorted to means so stange, I never did before.

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Raise your horns to Essryd as we approach part 6 of her adventures in the Kingdom of Rethem. After she decreased the maintenance costs for the household of Sigeric by executing his sorry excuse of a son, Essryd is now preparing her next step to get revenge.

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Greetings fellow roleplayers and Hârniacs! Welcome back to my solo campaign in the Kingdom of Rethem where we play Baroness Essryd, head of House Gehwær. I really start to love this little sociopath.

FYI, I implemented a little mechanic (call it houserule or whatever) where I keep track of a mental stability using the Mythic Chaos Factor of each scene. I multiply the chaos factor by three and use the resulting value to generate an EML value for WIL checks. If Essryd is in control of the situation and the chaos factor is low, she tends to get her act together, if the chaos factor is high, she easily gets into rage or tends to questionable behaviour.

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Welcome back, dear reader! We left Essryd in Nurien after returning from Tormau and now, after 7 days we join her when she receives a strange note from her stewart. In this part, I was finally able to make use of the conspiracy rules in HMK and started investigating further for who exactly the instigators of her family’s assassination were.

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