Hogwarts: An RPG

Love this system and the look of everything, and I just had a few questions. First, I saw in the Polish translation there's a map of Hogwarts that looks great! Any chance of getting it in the English version? And secondly what did you use to get the vibe so absolutely right (e.g. the font, the weathering on blocks of colour, the little hand icons). Would love to know so if I make Handouts I can match the theme. Thanks!!

Hi David,
I love Hogwarts RPG and would like to write a setting for another school in the wizarding world based on it / making use of the rules. Would it be ok with you, if I adapt your rules accordingly or maybe I can even treat it as a Hogwarts RPG hack of sorts? Let me know, what you think. Thanks!

Hi David. I really like this game. I would like to translate it into Czech. It is possible to get the source files somewhere? I would really appreciate it as I am not a graphic designer.

what’s the best way to solo this? Any recommendation for oracles or systems?

Hello there!
We translated this Hogwarts RPG system into Ukrainian.
Could you also share it on the game's page? We would greatly appreciate that! 
Looking forward to your reply :) 

Hi, I have this system Hogwart RPG translated into Polish, could you share it?

 Are you going to add things published or released in recent times, such as Hogwarts Legacy, in future updates of the role-playing game? The concept of Ancient magic, for example, I think is very interesting for a role-playing game.

I just downloaded this and gave it a read through, and felt that maybe there should be some tangible bonus (Like advantages/disadvantages from other systems) for having low/high Traits. This would explain how one could play a character like Hermione Granger who could cast Reparo (A 2nd year spell in this system) on the train before she took any classes.

IE: For each + in the Magic Trait you can learn/cast spells of a higher year then your current. Or something like that. Or for Intellect get a +1 on rolls on your "Topic of Expertise", gain 1 topic of expertise for each positive number in the Intellect Trait.

Just a thought, other then that amazing work. Thank you so much. I'll be hopefully playtesting this system with some friends from a Play-by-Post HP Universe RPG I play in.

I'm sorry I discovered too late here on itch.io there was already an Italian version of this great work! My bad Kioki! And thanks David &Co!

I've done an alternative low-profile Italian version, you can find here:

https://mathujoke.itch.io/hogwarts-gdr

Hey,

we have made a full-on german translation with the layout beeing done by us! 😊

https://pen-and-paper.info/systeme/hogwarts-rpg/

Translation has been done by me Neuromancer | Michael & Layout by Red | Theresia.

Also we've done a podcast episode on that matter at our "Quickstart" format: 

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6DUDIMMRXphUs6yROghWQs?si=R-sxvmmzQ2e03jQJbLWQm...

Also we had a live actual play campaign with the system too:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8KE53eqC0Kqhh9bHoeTIt2jlTSkqu-4G

Would be awesome and glad if you would add us to the translationslist. 😊

Thank you for doing such a great work with the Hogwarts RPG!

Best o' wishes,

Neuromancer & the pnp.info-Team 👋

Hi there! I can’t seem to to find the narrator sheet.

Hi there, may I please translate this into German? I have already started to do so for my players and am roughly halfway through, but I thought it might be of interest for others as well.

Hi! I love this game so much! Could I translate it into Polish? (And maybe also include some scenarios that I wrote for one-shots?) I already translated some things for my players, to make playing easier for them. 

This is just the PbtA game I was looking for to introduce my daughter and her friends to TTRPGs. Thanks for making it. Totally free? Do you have a BuyMeACoffee account? I'm happy to support.

Hi David,

I'm glad to announce you that we have a french version of your game !

Here's a link to the itch page, I hope you like it and that it's okay for you to publish it: https://mori-drak.itch.io/hogwarts-le-jdr

The pdfs are quite "heavy" because it is the high quality export. But we will be able to publish light versions soon, probably after the holidays. :)

Thank you so much for your trust.

You can easily recognise this a very good game just looking at the influences. We just finished playing our first session.

This is a crazy good game for both fans and non fans. Very well designed, the game flows like only good PbtA games do.

Thanks a lot for bringing this to the ttrpg community :)

Kind regards

Edoardo

How to deal with players tending to fix any curse/spell effect with Finite Intantatem counterspell?

My two sons and their friend (and his dad) are really enjoying playing this game! Thank you so much for it. 

I hope you don’t mind me asking, but I’m curious about the tool you used for laying it out. Would you recommend Affinity Publisher for a zine or a PbtA hack like this?

Hi! I have a question about Conditions: a few times across the rules, there's mentions of Comforting or Supporting to remove Conditions. I thought it would be a move (like in Masks: A New Generation), but there's no mention of it like that. Should it just be like, comforting or supporting in fiction?

Hi I'm new to PBTA and this game, could you help me, please?
How I make damage if some monster, or thug attack player characters, or how I should resolve if player character wish to attack some best? knife or other weapon damage, and so on?

I would like to test this game with my daughter and her friends. It will be their first time with RPGs, and a girls-only party!

However, they are HP experts, while I only watched the movies. I do not have the time or knowledge to create a scenario. It would be low-quality and a delusion for them. Is there any ready-made adventure available, in any language?

Hey david do you maybe have a site or links to possible sites that may have your or fan made premade maps, character concept art and wands? Due to me living by myself and I have been wanting to solo play this and or if possible write a cyoa interactive fanfic on my phone using this as a guide (cuz I don't have a pc atm lol ) 

Hello,

ran few mini campaigns of Hogwarts RPG and had a blast. And here with a couple of new questions, to make it even better : )

1. If a player chooses another player's character as a friend, does that mean another player can only choose him as a friend as well? (Same with rivals)
2. Do you have any tips on how the game works best: is it better to always keep the players as one group? Because when I let them do their own stuff separately, which is common for most PbtA games, it doesn't work well : /
3. As mentioned by the author, the game is meant to be played for students only. But why the "Create Your Wizard" step 1 says "Your witch/wizard may be a 1st-7th Year student, or a graduate like a teacher or staff member."?

Thank  you!

Hello. I wanted to say thank you for creating such a lovely and marvelous game that brought the world of Hogwarts to life. I tested the game with some friends today as a pre birthday celebration for my 30th and it was a fun journey. I tweaked the mystery and luck function thinking my friends would only do the oneshot and turns out they want play again. But I would like to really complement you to how easy and how the system flowed as you got into it. I loved the serious conditions and how I was able to create the magnificent world of Bogwarts Hogwarts in the 1920s.  So thank you and I loved every second of this game.

Hi there :D

I'm about to start playing with a group of friends and I was wondering if you have a suggestion on how to handle a quidditch game. Should it have a set number of rounds in order to give the team that didn't got the golden snitch a chance to win? 

For example: if a match lasts twenty rounds and Gryffindor manages to score 16 goals for 160 points and Hufflepuff scores 0 goals but catches the golden snitch, Gryffindor still wins. 

Is a set number of rounds the way to go or should it just be whoever catches the golden snitch first?

I haven't been a GM before, so I'm not really sure if I should worry about details like this. I guess you play a couple of rounds, you introduce the golden snitch and whoever catches it first, that's it? 

What do you think? 

PS I'm very excited to play this. We're currently playing a much more complicated system and it's kind of awesome to have a chance to play a simpler one, especially one set in this world. Thank you for that. I must also note that I really appreciate the beautifully designed PDFs. Have a great day! 

Hello again! Maybe it's my English level's fault, but can you please clarify,

1. What's the difference between two 10+ options of Face Danger:
"You stand firm and nobody gets hurt.
You aren’t hurt, and you hurt the threat right back." 
What's the point of choosing the first one, it seems that it just doesn't change the situation at all.
2. "Learning spells" says they can be learned from a book and you don't even need a roll for it. Does it mean, a student can just have the textbook with him all the time and learn whatever spell he needs? What's the point of gaining experience and spending it to learn a new spell? Or spending luck point to try to cast it?
3. Help or Hinder Someone – "Offer them 1 Experience to stop what they're doing." That sounds like the option for players. How to narrate that as the option for characters?

Thank you in advance!

I wish there was a Hogwarts map suitable for tabletop gaming.

Has anyone put the character sheets up on Roll20?

Would be cool if someone did a virtual tabletop for mobile android with this game for offline 1 player that be epic if there is something like that can someone let me know as well as send a link to it to download thank

Hello, this game looks great! 
Unfortunately, this game is not very well-known in Russia. But many Russian players love the world of Harry Potter.
     Therefore, I ask for permission to execute and publish on Russian tabletop games forum a free fan localization of  "Hogwarts RPG – Full Game", "Hogwarts RPG – Player Kit", "Hogwarts RPG – Fillable Character Sheets".

This is a completely non-commercial project aimed to show as many players in Russia as possible advantages of this game.

     Hope you will grant your permission

Best regards,

Alexander Mikhailov

Hello, There is a discussion on the french discord CestpasduJdR about translating the game in french. It's still a dream, but so you know : it's in the air.

hi, would this be suitable for solo play? Or does it really need to have a group to play? Thanks!

Hello and thank you for such a nice and pretty game. Can you tell me please what happens, when a character takes four Experience during the game, does he has to stop adding it after each failed roll since he can only advance at the end of a session? 

How do I add it to roll20? I can't manage to add the character sheet to the game. Can someone help me?