Gryffindor: Clan Weasley

 Weasley

"rise like lions"

Jamie from Outlander has red hair and looks cool, he'll do

Sigil: three ermine, gold on wine.

Skills: Athletics (advanced) | Fighting (advanced) | Stealth (basic) | Charms (basic) | Devices (basic)

When the Boy Who Lived returned from death for the first time, a Weasley was the first to recognize Him and do Him homage. Ever since the clan has profited from His blessing. It is also said that the Weasleys sheltered Him from His enemies for a time, and that He wed a daughter of their line.

As one of the oldest wizarding families and the successors to Head of House Gryffindor, the Weasleys are a numerous and powerful clan. They share ties of blood with most of the great magical powers across the former United Kingdom and hold sizable territories in France as well (through a cadet branch, the Wescourts of Shell Castle). Wherever a Weasley goes he is sure to run into red-haired cousins.

Inspired Action – A Hundred Cousins

You can spend Inspiration to make any roll Safe if you can explain how one of your relatives taught you a useful trick in this situation. You must invent a new story each time.

 

Flaw – Meager Inheritance

Heir to a glorious legacy yet far down in the line of succession: how can you hope to live up to such heroes of the clan as Ronald of Granger (so puissant a commander that it was said he ordered battlefields like chessmen on a board), Black George One-Ear, or Charles I, the Dragon-Tamer?

When another character succeeds at a task you may choose to become Jealous of them and gain Inspiration. While Jealous you are Miserable until that character suffers some kind of misfortune.

 

Starting Equipment –pick two–

1. Weasel-pelt sporran – Armor 3 vs serpents

2. Heirloom broomstick (Heavy, see Broomstick table)

3. Scops Owl

Owl Names:

1. Archimedes

2. Dowsabel

3. Gourmallion

4. Ickleby

5. Trismegustus

6. Willowip
   

4. Sword (M) and pistol (M, Reload)

5. Satchel of fireworks – one rocket and a variety of smaller sparklers (ud6, Heavy)

6. Box of puking pastilles (ud6)

 

Names

1. Fisher

2. Gareth

3. Lionel

4. Elaine

5. Marilyn

6. Morgan

Design Notes: Clan Weasley is a good example of the difficulties of adapting this idea to a generic system. Outside of the specific knowledge of the Harry Potter books, this isn't really an archetype. In that context though, I think it's recognizable as a high fantasy extrapolation of Ron Weasley and his family dynamic.

That said though, for each of the character playbooks I've tried to make the Inspired Actions and Flaws appeal to specific kinds of players. The Flaws in particular are meant to gamify mild but common antisocial RPG behaviors in a fun or funny way. Part of this is also genre emulation as well: most of the characters in Harry Potter have some spiky or unpleasant streak in their personalities, and I wanted to inject a bit of that intercharacter conflict into the dungeoncrawling setup (but without changing the focus of the game).

The Wescourts of Shell Castle in France are meant to be the descendants of Bill and Fleur. If I were in the business of churning out splatbooks for a Night-Haunted Hogwarts product line I would absolute make a variant Weasley write-up for them as unusually handsome folk haunted by a beastly curse.

Names: the d6 name tables for each clan also double as random gender selection. Names 1-3 are always masculine, 4-6 feminine. Continuing the trend from the books, the Weasley names here are prosaic versions of names from Arthurian myth.