Cadwallon (role-playing game)

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Cadwallon Tactical Role Playing in the World of Confrontation
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
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. 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.

[edit] 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. 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. The whole city is ruled by the Duc de Cadwallon.

[edit] System

Cadwallon has a custom ruleset for generating characters. Characters are from among the races in the Confrontation (Rackham) universe, namely elves, dwarves, humans, goblins, orcs, ogres and wolfen. 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.