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12 months ago ::
Jul 05, 2012 - 9:51AM
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Yup, and while I'm usually pretty good at ignoring it for the default settings, whenever I run a game myself, I try and base it loosely around a general timeframe, and make whatever alterations seem pertinent based on the degree and potency of magic and monsters present. It will typically not be set on earth ofcourse, but I usually draw a great deal of inspiration from actual societies, which the various nations and races are often modeled on.
Nice list by the way.
Actually, a lot of people do that when they run the FR. Amn = Spain/portugal, Calimshan = Iberia, Chessenta = Ancient Greece,The Moonshae Isles = Ireland/Vikings, Mulhorand = Ancient Egypt, etc...
I certainly did, although for me, the equivalences were:
Savage Frontier = Britain/Germany
Amn = The Veneto and Liguria
Tethyr = the Balkans
Calimshan = Ottoman Turkey (with Shoonach = Byzantium)
(The Wikipedia article seems to think about half a dozen places are modelled on Iberia/Al-Andalus. I like to keep things varied.)
Z.
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12 months ago ::
Jul 05, 2012 - 10:17AM
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I feel like the history of technology is one of the most overlooked facets of a campaign setting. Though I wouldn't include these sorts of discussions in core products (which, IMO, should NOT be specific to any world) I would like to see campaign settings spend a little more time on different eras for adventuring, including information on available technologies.
Sure, it requires some work, but, then again, so does the money I spend on D&D products. Go ahead and impress me, WotC. I dare you.
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12 months ago ::
Jul 05, 2012 - 10:48AM
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I feel like the history of technology is one of the most overlooked facets of a campaign setting. Though I wouldn't include these sorts of discussions in core products (which, IMO, should NOT be specific to any world) I would like to see campaign settings spend a little more time on different eras for adventuring, including information on available technologies.
Sure, it requires some work, but, then again, so does the money I spend on D&D products. Go ahead and impress me, WotC. I dare you.
I'd be perfectly happy if WoTC just reprinted the HR books with updated 5e rules. I'm sure a large number of D&D players haven't even heard of those books.
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12 months ago ::
Jul 05, 2012 - 11:04AM
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I'd be perfectly happy if WoTC just reprinted the HR books with updated 5e rules. I'm sure a large number of D&D players haven't even heard of those books.
I'd be a fan of that. I'd love to see more of them developed, in fact. How about:
Flourish and Fall: Spring and Autumn era China
The Old Regime: Europe during the early-18th-century Wars of Succession (slow-rate firearms, lots of diplomacy)
Dawn of Time: Sumer under Sargon (very primitive technology)
Visions in Black Glass: Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
Emperor of Emperors: India under Ashoka
Lords of the Nile: Egypt and Cush in the 8th century BCE
Any others people would especially like to see?
Z.
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12 months ago ::
Jul 05, 2012 - 11:06AM
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That'd work for me as well, but since they haven't touched them (mechanically speaking) in what's closing in on two decades, I sort of doubt it.
Then again, since they're taking a semi-retro approach to 5e, if it's ever gonna happen, now'd be the time.
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12 months ago ::
Jul 05, 2012 - 5:11PM
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I'm all for D&D having a chart or somesuch to aid in developing the technological progress of a campaign setting.
Hand-in-hand with technological progress should be magical progress. A parallel chart showing the progress of magic through the various eras would be most appreciated.
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12 months ago ::
Jul 05, 2012 - 5:42PM
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Hand-in-hand with technological progress should be magical progress. A parallel chart showing the progress of magic through the various eras would be most appreciated.
"Overland Filight has not been invented by any wizards yet. You can attempt to invent it with an Arcana roll. Failure means you have to wait next year or level."
Orzel, Halfelven son of Zel, Mystic Ranger, Bane to Dragons, Death to Undeath, Killer of Abyssals, King of the Wilds.
Constitution Based Class for Next!
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12 months ago ::
Jul 05, 2012 - 6:23PM
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Ha!, though, situations like that depend on the way magic is viewed. I've seen it not as a scientific advancement or any streamlining, just peopel do "stuff" in hopes of it evoking some response, and when a response is evoked little work is done to figure out how much of what they did was actually needed. While not specifically 5e realted, encouraging wizards to invest in spells research by giving them inefficient standard spells has worked for me.
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