Sturm Und Drang

A Lasers & Feelings Hack for 18 C. lit nerds and their unassuming friend circle
Written by Jazz and Dave Eisinger
Create Character obstacles, weather, and outside forces
Equipment (STURM). See Playing the Game for
Style more details on these skills.
A set of clothing
Choose a style for your character (an A horse
adjective) or roll 1d6 to determine.
Game Setup
The tools of your trade/hobby
The game session is run by a person
1 Dour A family heirloom
known as the Game Runner (GR).
2 Haughty
(You may come up with something
3 Timid Character Goal more quaint or themed if you prefer.)
4 Assertive Choose a short phrase or make up
5 Overconfident your own: Starting Area
6 Boorish Find something missing, gain respect While the characters are being created,
from an idol, get wealth, create your the GR decides the following or rolls
Role magnum opus, be amazed by nature. 1d6 to determine the starting area.
Your character's career (a noun) or roll
Player Goal
1d6 to determine. The location (a building, set of
1 Painter Embrace the emotional turbulence and buildings, or mode of travel) may be
2 Writer free range of emotion (such as the starting area or the area that the
3 Poet apprehension, horror, terror, and awe) entire game is played in, at the GR’s
4 Sculptor valued in the Strurm Und Drang and discretion.
5 Sycophant Romanticism movements.
6 Unskilled Heir The setting is a small part of the
Target Number location; a combination of these two
Name, Etc. Choose a number between 2 and 5. tables should give the game a sense of
Choose your character’s full name, This single number is your character’s place and environment.
nickname or pen name, their title inner empathy and compassion, how
and/or rank, and pronouns. they understand and communicate with Additional adjectives about the starting
others, or how they tap into their area, such as “haunted,” “creepy,”
creative drives (DRANG) or interact “mossy,” or “secluded” are up to your
with the world around them including imagination.
 Sturm Und Drang
Location THE CHARACTERS ENCOUNTER... Playing The Game
1 Creditors
1 Ship
2 An Upstart Servant The Stats
2 Ruins
3 A Publisher/Patron
3 Palace The game has 2 stats with 1 target
4 A Scorned Suitor
4 Cottage number. All unpredictable, uncertain, or
5 A Mysterious Stranger
5 Estate variable tasks or actions should use
6 A Rival Artist
6 University one of the 2 stats: Sturm or Drang.

Setting WHO WANT TO...

1 Destroy
1 Stony Beach
2 Control
2 Forest
3 Blackmail
3 Moors
4 Murder
4 Fjords
5 Protect
5 Mountain
6 Embarrass
6 Island
A...
The Adventure Phrase
1 Baron/Mayor
The Game Runner rolls on the
2 Rich Aristocrat
following tables to determine the crisis
3 Infant Crown Prince
to be solved during the adventure.
4 Dowager Countess
Alternative: players each choose one
5 Group Member’s Relative
part of the adventure phrase, or
6 Group Member
players collectively choose the
adventure phrase. WHICH WILL...
1 Cause a Bankruptcy
2 Start A Trade War
3 Discredit A Family House
4 Make Them Richer Than The
Pope
5 Cause a Scandal
6 Disrupt an Inheritance
STURM rolls are for when a character
wants to interact with the outside,
physical world, and a “success” is
determined by rolling under the Target
Number.
● A high Target Number (4 or 5)
character is more likely to
succeed at STURM rolls.
DRANG rolls are for when a character
wants to interact with other people,
their inner self, or tap into their creative
drive.
● A low Target Number (2 or 3)
character is more likely to
succeed at DRANG rolls.
Rolling Dice
When rolling a stat: Roll with 1d if the
character is of average skills at the
task they are trying to complete.
● Roll +1d if they are trained in or
prepared for the action, the
action is related to their style or

role, or the action is related to
their title/rank.
● Roll an additional +1d if the
character is an expert or
virtuoso at the task, as
determined by the GM.
Dice Success Or Failure
After rolling the die or dice, look at all
numbers individually against the Target
Number. Sturm success = roll under
Target Number; Drang success = roll
over Target Number
● No dice meet the Success
condition: the action fails, goes
wrong, or becomes worse
● 1 die Succeeds: barely manage
to succeed, a complication is
introduced, harm is taken, or
there is an additional cost to the
action.
● 2 dice Succeed: a normal and
unremarkable success, the
action is accomplished with
ease.
● 3+ dice Succeed: a critical
success, the action succeeds
and there is an extra bonus
effect determined by the GR.
If any die is the exact Target Number,
it’s the same as a 3+ dice Success and
THE SUBLIME occurs immediately.
Sturm Und Drang
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following: therefore Sturm Und Drang, is under a
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● Describe how the character
experiences a heightened
emotion in the scene that
changes their view of the world.
Roll To Help
State before the roll how the character
is helping another character in the
scene to accomplish a task, and decide
which stat you are rolling.
● Roll the die.
● If you succeed, the person you
are helping rolls with +1d.