Burrows & Badgers: A Skirmish Game of Anthropomorphic Animals

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Burrows and Badgers is an RPG style wargame produced by Osprey Games. Its characters are anthropomorphic animals. [1] Gameplay [ edit ] When filing or sanding models, take care to ensure any particles or dust are not inhaled; it is best to do this in a well ventilated area. Burrows & Badgers is a tabletop skirmish game set in the ancient realm of Northymbra, a kingdom where mice, badgers, toads and other animals wear armour, wield swords, and cast magic spells. Players take it in turns activating one of their characters to do something even if that something is just hiding or running around a bit. Every character has the same list of actions they can perform, the only exception is that magic can only be cast by wizards (well mostly, anyways) as they’ll need to know a spell first! The actions you can perform are:

Find sources: "Burrows and Badgers"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( June 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) The movement value as a dice value looks a little confusing at first. That beast will simply move the maximum that it could roll on that dice. For example, a fox moves D8 so it will move 8″ unless moving through difficult terrain you roll the D8 to see how far you may move; difficult terrain will be things you agree before the game such as crop fields or rivers. However, if you’re trying to traverse vertical distance then that’ll use the beast’s Nimbleness stat meaning a fox can only move 6″ vertically with a D6 value. One of the most interesting modifiers is nice and simple: for every 4 wounds a character as suffered it subtracts 1 from all of its rolls. Everything. They’re hurt, so they’re not performing to the best they can! A character that has suffered 10 wounds will suffer a -2 to all of its rolls, making it even easier to bring down and more difficult to deal damage or cast spells with. Your tabletop becomes part of the Kingdom of Northymbra, whose ruined villages, haunted forests, and misty marshes play host to brutal ambushes and desperate skirmishes. Lead your warband from battle to battle, and uphold the name of your faction, whether you stand with Reinert's Royalists, the Freebeasts of the Fox Families, or simply for your own glory or survival. Other than wounds each beast has its own statline as mentioned above. Like with any wargame these are shortened to a letter for ease on the table, the stats that every species has is:

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Players can have a variety of species fight in their warbands. The characters include rabbits, mice, badgers, snakes, shrews, and birds. The classes that characters can assume include wizards, barbarians and rogues. [2] Release [ edit ] The rulebook has a few very nice and easy to follow tables on all of these modifiers but it’s also incredible helpful to note on your character’s sheets what skills they have and what those will do to their rolls in game.

To start you’ll need a polyhedric dice set or a “Dungeons and Dragons” dice set so that you have a D4, D6, D8, and D12 to hand. You really only need one of each, but I haven’t met a single gamer that’s able to have only one set of dice on hand for any game. Each stat of each beast in your warband will have a value next to it, from D4 up to D12 at max, telling you which dice to roll when it comes time. We’ll get more into stats below, just have a set of polyhedral dice ready and you’ll be good to go! Stats Alright but how do you actually do anything?? With alternating activations and actions, that’s how.From shrews and mice to beavers and badgers, with an incredibly assortment of beasts in between, Burrows and Badgers focuses on small scale skirmishes normally using between 4 to 8 models per side. But how do they actually fight each other? Core Concepts The Table Noble Magic–“pure” magic that will never do any form of direct damage but can teleport models amongst other useful effects.

Burrows & Badgers is a tabletop skirmish game set in the ancient realm of Northymbra, a kingdom where mice, badgers, toads and other animals wear armor, wield swords, and cast magic spells. There’s too many spells to sit here and list so you’re going to have to go and look for yourself! Not using magic isn’t going to hinder you either, so don’t feel like it’s something that you absolutely need to lean into, however it can be very strong. Scenarios Unbound Magic– formed purely from…studying, a variety of effects named after the wizard that discovered it! There isn’t a set table size that you’ll be playing on. Anything roughly the size of a 3’x3′ or a 2’x4′ works well for 2-3 player games, if you’re playing a bit larger or like to have more space on a dense table for thematic purposes then up to a 4’x4′ would would pretty well; it might just take a while for some of your fighters to get into the action!

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