| Cadwallon Tactical Role Playing in the World of Confrontation |
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| Designer | Arnaud Cuidet, Bruno Bechu, Damien Desnous, Franck Plasse, Gregoire Laakmann, Ivo Garcia, Jean Bay, Nicolas Raoult, Sebastien Celerin, Vincent Kaufmann, Willem Peerbolte, Xavier Spinat |
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| Publisher | Rackham |
| Publication date | 2006 |
| Genre(s) | Fantasy |
| System | Custom |
Cadwallon is a tactical role-playing game published by Rackham in book form (ISBN 9782915556384) that is set in the fantasy world of the miniature wargame Confrontation. A "game designer" is a person who designs Video games or one who designs traditional games such as Board games Video Games Designer A video game designer A video game publisher is a company that publishes Video games that they have either developed internally or have had developed by a Video game developer Rackham ( is a French miniature and Role-playing games production company established in 1997 Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Fantasy is a Genre that uses magic and other Supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting A role-playing game ( RPG; often roleplaying game) is a Game in which the participants assume the roles of Fictional characters. Rackham ( is a French miniature and Role-playing games production company established in 1997 Confrontation is a tactical Fantasy Miniature wargaming in which the combatants are represented by Metal figures in 28 mm scale Being a tactical RPG, it is played with miniatures. As with most of Rackham's products, Cadwallon was originally written in French and later translated into English. French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States
Setting
Cadwallon is the name of the large city in which the role-playing game is set. The city was founded by a mercenary company and is reputedly free from the surrounding nations' politics which mainly concern the massive war called The Rag'narok. A mercenary is a person who takes part in an armed conflict who is not a national or a party to the conflict and is "motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by The city is divided in two parts; the upper city and the lower city, which are further divided into eleven fiefdoms, each with its own peer. Under the system of Feudalism, a fiefdom, fief, feud, feoff, or fee, often consisted of inheritable lands or revenue-producing The whole city is ruled by the Duc de Cadwallon.
System
Cadwallon has a custom ruleset for generating characters. A player character or playable character (PC is a Fictional character in a Video game or Role playing game who is controlled or controllable Characters are from among the races in the Confrontation (Rackham) universe, namely elves, dwarves, humans, goblins, orcs, ogres and wolfen. Confrontation is a tactical Fantasy Miniature wargaming in which the combatants are represented by Metal figures in 28 mm scale An elf is a creature of Norse mythology. The elves were originally imagined as a race of minor nature and fertility gods, who are often pictured as youthful-seeming DWARF is a widely used standardized Debugging data format. DWARF was originally designed along with ELF, although it is independent of Object file Human beings, humans or man (Origin 1590–1600 L homō man OL hemō the earthly one (see Humus A goblin is an evil crabby or Mischievous Creature of Folklore, often described as a grotesquely disfigured or Gnome -like phantom Orc (OR'k is a word used to refer to a race of various tough and warlike humanoid creatures in various Fantasy settings appearing originally in the stories An ogre (feminine ogress) is a large cruel and hideous Humanoid Monster, featured in mythology folklore and fiction Thay also belong to one of the cultures and factions which are waging war on the continent. A character can also originate from Cadwallon itself and thus does not belong to any of the warring factions in Rag'narok.
Cadwallon has a custom system where pools of six-sided dice are used when determining the success of actions. In some Role-playing game systems the dice pool is the number of Dice that a player is allowed to roll when attempting to perform a certain action For other uses see either Die or Dice (disambiguation. Dice (the Plural of Die, from Old French
External links
- Rackham's website
- Official Confrontation, Rag'narok, Hybrid and Cadwallon boards
- RPG.net review
- (French) Article on the Guide du rôliste galactique
- (French) fan site
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