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Post by topkekm8s on Dec 12, 2013 1:03:20 GMT -5
With my dnd group. Technically Arm related I guess. The campaign will be made from scratch by myself. I am not too familiar with Dark Sun (though I have been reading up on it and preparing). I plan on drawing heavily from Arm. I want to do something along the lines of an orthodox adventure/quest across the desert spread over several months. A journey. Have you played any dark sun campaigns? Thoughts? Tips? Stuff I should do? Stuff I shouldnt do? Any cool scenarios from Arm you'd care to share I could use to make rp vignettes?  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2013 2:55:11 GMT -5
Since I have first started playing, there seems to almost -always- be at least one group of fairly powerful elementalists out in the desert somewhere. Maybe use one of those in place of the veiled alliance factions you might find outside a city in a normal dark sun campaign, and the gemmed instead of the same in Allanak, if you're planning a direct translation of arm's settings into dark sun rulebooks/stats?
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Post by MartenBroadcloak on Dec 12, 2013 11:54:19 GMT -5
OH GOD I WANT TO PLAAAY..
Goddamnit I miss D&D.. I was just starting to get proficient at one time.
ALAS.
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Post by delerak on Dec 12, 2013 15:30:45 GMT -5
I am so in. Let me know if you wanna do anything over webcam or something.
Darksun is great, it's all about the storytelling. The campaigns can get really crazy if you let it, I prefer low fantasy so I usually enforce the water thing pretty heavily but there are tons of places to go in Athas if you get the maps.
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Post by delerak on Dec 12, 2013 15:31:44 GMT -5
Incorporate the sorcerer-kings as NPCs. Hamanu is a badass. Kalak is dead depending on where you start the campaign but there are still plenty of great city-states ruled by sorc-kings.
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Post by topkekm8s on Apr 1, 2014 19:38:04 GMT -5
accepting plots from random strangers cuz im a lazy dm
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Post by mood on Apr 1, 2014 20:58:47 GMT -5
what edition do you plan on running with?
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Post by mood on Apr 1, 2014 21:01:08 GMT -5
I suggest Dungeon World fwiw, you can hack basically anything into it, it's easy as pie to learn and run, and it's a great fucking system.
d&d is dead, long live storygames.
edit: just realized this is old and youre probably already settled on a system.
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Post by tektolnes on Apr 2, 2014 23:10:57 GMT -5
d&d is dead, long live storygames. I blame 4th Edition. 3.5e is still the shit. The 3.5 guys moved to Pathfinder (aka 3.75e), but I've never played it personally. 4th edition was a lame dumbing down for the WoW crowd. I guess it works for n00bs and for quick adventures, but you're basically forced int a very finite feeling path tree, where as in 3.5e there was a reason to study and experiment. I had a DM build a Scout/Ninja who nearly solo'd our entire party while only being 1-2 levels above us. Scout as a "skirmish" move that lets you surprise attack (backstab), then spring back 10 feet. Ninja can go invis as a free action after moving 10 feet. Combined, you have a guy who comes out of nowhere, backstabs you for like +5d6 damage, and then goes invisible, all in a single turn.... In 4e you couldn't even begin to do something that studious and awesome. Not to mention 4E thrashes the Dark Sun setting. Once again, they decided to push their dragonborn and tiefling races into Athas because... yeah half-dragons and devil-people would go over well in Athas... totally.... Dark Sun wasn't officially published for 3.5E, but the creators did realease a series of PDFs for 3.5. You can find them for download, though they're a bit tricky to hunt down. I have most or all of the core books for 3.5 Dark Sun, plus a heap of campaigns /adventures. The download is out there on google somewhere. Also, as Delerak said, the 3.5e leaves Tyr in a VERY interesting state that follows the Verdant Passage series of DS novels. Kalak is dead, and the slaves are all freed in Tyr. The government is run, at the highest level, by the heroes of the Verdant Passage novels. However, immediately below them is a ruling council made up of multiple representatives from 4 different factions in the cities (IIRC; free peoples (slaves and commoners), merchants, veiled allience, and nobility). So, this lower tier is very obtainable to relatively low level PCs, if political element interests you. (On a side note, how perfect is that for a DS MUD setting? Ordinary PCs would be able to get nominated up into the 2nd highest level of the city government, and use the power to sway the other council members o help push their plots. Any old mundane could rep the free peoples. No spec. app or even Guild affiliation required.) Lastly, delerak for the online/webcam comment. Check out www.roll20.net - Very cool, free, online campaign hosting. I've been meaning to give it a try, but it's impossible to get in on games on there because everyone wants to play, no one wants to DM. (Just like RL, I guess.) |
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Post by topkekm8s on Apr 4, 2014 17:25:53 GMT -5
using next
my campaign setting/realm is entirely original. but i did draw a lot from dark sun
less focus on le epique skirmishes/number crunching and more focus on storytelling and character development. i sort of own. like i said if you have any plots or ideas i can throw them in if i think they are cool. i'd even record it and put it on youtube if you want. as a dm my style is pretty fluid and improvy, i'll have like 5-8 things i'll have typed up in paragraphs ready to go before we start and roll wit em and see where they go
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Post by moofassa on Apr 4, 2014 22:54:25 GMT -5
D&D was always too gamey for me. Ok if you want to go that route, but I just search up ideal character builds on internet, and figure out a backstory later. On a board like this, you're going to find a hell lot more powergamer assholes like me. For more story intensive games and character development and drama, I use FATE.
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Post by Lizzie on Apr 5, 2014 9:45:04 GMT -5
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