Re: Re: What genres and settings are you planning for HeroQuest?
Ben wrote:
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> I've got a couple of ideas at the moment:
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> 1 - "Tooth and Claw" is a campaign where the PCs are all members of a
> wolf pack in the Great Plains of the US, c. early 1800's or so.
> They've been displaced from their lands, and are searching for new
> territories. "Watership Down meets Never Cry Wolf" is my pitch. It's
> also going to have a bit of a supernatural element to it, with an
> animist magic system based on "Hunts" (ceremonial quest magic) and
> "Howls" (spirit songs).
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Watership Down meets Never Cry Wolf?
Awesome.
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> 2 - "Mist and Sea": Gloranthan campaign set in Seshnela, inspired by
> the 'feel' of the Earthsea books. This campaign will be about
> travelling the islands of the shattered kingdom, looking for personal
> enlightenment, rather than temporal power. However, I may jettison the
> Gloranthan setting entirely for this, and do something custom just for it.
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I'd go the second route, personally.
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> 3 - "Legacy of Bard": a Middle-earth campaign, in which the
> descendants of King Bard of Dale are afflicted with greed and madness,
> and the PCs have to set things right in the shadow of the encroaching
> War of the Ring.
>
That sounds fun.
LC
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