One for all!
A one-page Musketeers RPG
Players
You are a cadet in the Musketeers!
Grab 5D6. This is your dice pool.
Write down 3 things about you.
Each thing should be capable of being good
or bad. For example: Criminal Past,
Forbidden Love, Rarely Sober, Father’s
Sword, Light-fingered, Always the Centre
of Attention. Tell the GM if you think any
of these apply to a roll you make. You
might gain or lose a die for that roll!
A Simple Action
• Roll your dice pool.
• Each 1 you have cancels out a 6.
• If you still have any 6s, you succeed
wildly.
• Otherwise if you still have any 1s, you
fail terribly.
• Otherwise, you succeed by the skin of
your teeth.
An Opposed Action
• Both roll as per a simple action.
• If one of you has more 6s than the other,
they win the contest.
• Otherwise, if one of you has more 1s than
the other, they lose the contest.
• Otherwise, it’s a draw.
• Any 1s you’ve rolled are now
‘locked’, and removed from your dice
pool until the end of the scene.
A Duel
A duel is a series of opposed actions.
Keep rolling until someone can’t roll any
dice! That person has lost the duel.
Duels don’t have to be swordplay!
Consider drinking or poetry!
All for One
If you do a successful simple action, you
can lend another musketeer one of your
dice until the end of the scene.
© 2020 Ian Thomas
GM
Each new scene, roll 2D6 on this table to
determine the type of scene:
• 2 - A swashbuckling swordfight
• 3 - An exhilarating brawl
• 4 - A joyful carousing session
• 5 - A race against time
• 6 - A romantic interlude
• 7 - A last-minute rescue
• 8 - A frantic chase
• 9 - A stealthy traversal
• 10 - A cunning theft
• 11 - A large-scale battle
• 12 - An audience with an Important
Figure
And roll another 2D6 for complications:
• 2-4 - A Guard Sergeant is here (3 dice)
• 5-6 - A Guard Captain is here (6 dice)
• 7 - The cadets are improperly attired
• 8 - The cadets have no weapons
• 9 - The cadets are drunk
• 10 - The cadets have been forbidden
from doing this by their Captain
• 11 - The cadets are in disguise
• 12 - An Important Figure is present
The Cardinal’s Guards
At the start of any scene with Cardinal’s
Guards, roll a D6. Multiply by the number
of cadets to find the number of guards.
Fight Scene
If a cadet is facing off against rank-and-file
guards, they roll a simple action. The
number of 6s they roll (after cancelling) is
the number of guards they take down.
Important Figures
The Queen, the King, the Cardinal, and any
other Important Figures have 12 dice.
Cinematic Style
Always drop in to a scene while the action
is kicking off or already happening, and cut
out of a scene at the earliest point you can.
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