Following a robust body of “monster trainer” cartoons, games, and franchises (including the highest-grossing entertainment media franchise of all time), Convocation Prime is about relatively normal people (usually children) enslaving magical creatures and forcing them to fight each other, instead of solving their own problems for themselves.
Derived from C.W. Griffen’s Anima Prime, this tabletop role-playing game puts summoned mons (here called “eidola”) front-and-center, and aims to make creation of both eidola and their trainers fast. The mechanics are significantly less complicated than other monster-training games you might find on the internet, but still just a bit more crunchy than “rules-light”.
The game includes three different settings, each offering a different approach towards putting the human trainers in harms way (or not), with different ages of target audience in mind. While not specifically targeted at kids, older children may be able to handle the game’s more fiddly bits.
Character sheets are assembled from modular components, using “4-up printing” features available on most PDF software. (Or, if you are daring, with a supplied python script.)
This title is a “DivNull Seed”, meaning it isn’t, and will never be, entirely finished, and is intended for you to tinker with. For more information, see its product page at DivNull Productions.
Convocation Prime is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Derived from C.W. Griffen’s Anima Prime, this tabletop role-playing game puts summoned mons (here called “eidola”) front-and-center, and aims to make creation of both eidola and their trainers fast. The mechanics are significantly less complicated than other monster-training games you might find on the internet, but still just a bit more crunchy than “rules-light”.
The game includes three different settings, each offering a different approach towards putting the human trainers in harms way (or not), with different ages of target audience in mind. While not specifically targeted at kids, older children may be able to handle the game’s more fiddly bits.
Character sheets are assembled from modular components, using “4-up printing” features available on most PDF software. (Or, if you are daring, with a supplied python script.)
This title is a “DivNull Seed”, meaning it isn’t, and will never be, entirely finished, and is intended for you to tinker with. For more information, see its product page at DivNull Productions.
Convocation Prime is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
These files are:
- convocation-prime-1.0.pdf: the main game
- convocation-prime-sheets.pdf: each page of this document is a module, four of which get assembled into a full sheet. The first page describes how to use 4-up printing to do this.
- play-aid-conflict.pdf: a “cheat sheet” for use in conflicts, with larger pool trackers and summaries of the rules. (This sheet was constructed from modules in convocation-prime-sheets.pdf.)
- convocation-prime-character-creation-survey.pdf: a page you can hand out to starting players to guide them through creating their character and their eidola.
- convocation-prime-print-cut.pdf: an optional document that assembles the pages of convocation-prime-sheets.pdf into a format that can be printed out, then cut into modules for hand assembly as a sheet. Use this only as a last resort.
- conv-sheet.py: an experimental python 3 script which knows how to assemble the modules of convocation-prime-sheets.pdf into sheets, if you can't use 4-up printing, or want more complicated options. The second page of convocation-prime-sheets.pdf describes how to get it running, and its -h option details what it can do.
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