Re: Describe your campaign. What are people playing these days?

From: Newt <newtus_at_...>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:28:08 -0000

My campaign is on an indefinate hiatus, as I'm taking a break from HQ. However before summer this was what I was running;

It was an episodic affair set in the Eastern Wilds of Ralios. The heroes where an odd bunch of outcasts from the Duchy of Naskorion, who do not approve of the current Duke's foreign and religous policies. Basically the Duke thinks he's the heir to Arkat's dark empire. He has invited trolls into the Duchy displacing many of the peasant class and reformed the Sygian Church of Arkat to include worship of the Troll Gods.

After witnessing the invasion of the neighbouring Orlanthi Kingdom of Delela, the heroes fled down river. Here they came across the magical Black Boat of Arkat whose Capt specialises in transporting Naskorion exiles to a settlement in the land of Karia.

"You'll be going four hundred miles up the river. You'll never be seeing your family or friends in Naskorion ever again. Do you still want to travel on my ship?" asks the Capt. With nothing to lose the heroes agree to travel with the boat.

The voyage of the Black Boat sees the heroes travel up river through the Mad land of Vustria. Vustria is a strange land inhabited by mad shamans where there are waterfalls that flow backwards! There are five towns on the river on the way to Karia, remanants of Arkat's Empire, and the boat must stop at each to restock supplies.

The whole campaign is very much Jason and the Argonauts meets Guilvers Travels. The background material for the Naskorion's and Delelarite's comes from TradeTalk 4 which was an Eastern Wilds special. The whole idea of the boat trip came from an e-mail correspondance with David Durham, who also has an interest in Ralios.

I also run an on off Troll Campaign in Halikiv, with a friend and a large stash of beer :). This forms the basis of the Troll games I run at cons.

I'm currently writing up a Lunar Campaign set in a Dara Happan City. It has five episodes and the plan is to playtest it as a whole (all but one episode has been played at conventions individually) and then publish in some form.

Regards

;o)Newt

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