The Motherland
Calls!, subtitled ‘a role-playing game of courage and resolve in defence of the
Motherland’, is a historical role-playing game that I worked on between June and September
2016, in which you play the role of a member of one of the rifle corps of the
Red Army during the fateful days of Operation Barbarossa. I have only GM’ed the
game once, at THE KRAKEN convention in Germany in October 2016. For some
reason, WWII has inspired writers of fiction, designers of wargames and boardgames,
but not of role-playing games — and before someone should mention Night Witches: yes,
I know and I own the game, but at the time I was aiming at something more Old
School.
Alas, the session
I GM’ed at THE KRAKEN wasn’t particularly successful, mostly I think because
the system itself wasn’t really suited to the genre… too much detail in some
areas, not enough in some others. The Motherland Calls! is still on my “will
re-work one day” list, and I think I’ll definitely move away from Old School
and towards something more narrative, more character-driven.
Anyway,
here is a character still generated using the 2016 rules:
Name: Nikolai
Pavlich Berezov
Ethnicity:
Russian Gender: Male Handedness: Right
Height: 1m62 Weight: 58kg
Age: 21
Description:
Short, thin
Distinctive
Features: Freckled, Looks younger than his age
Role: Rifleman
Background:
Member of the Komsomol
CHA 8
CON 8
CON 8
DEX 9
EDU 13
PER 9
STR 8
Keywords
Cold
weather
Hardy
Rifle
Political
Profile
Orthodox
11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3 Revisionist
Proletarian
11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3 Bourgeois
Modernist
11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3 Traditionalist
War Weariness
2
Hit points
Equipment
- Model
1940 steel helmet
- Cloth peaked
cap
- Rucksack
with ration pouch
- Two
cartridge pouches, each containing 20 rounds
- Two
grenades
- M91
bolt-action rifle (5 rounds) with bayonet
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