Quote from: Corvus;589187All I really remember about Birthright is that it was full of names I couldn't pronounce and couldn't remember how to spell to save my life. Sad, as I bought the box when it came out and was quite excited about the idea at first.

This, man. This.

We tried. We tried sounding it out. We tried applying our own standardized pronunciations. But none of the places or people were able to stick with us because we were unable to speak the language, as it were.

We started a campaign with some blooded cast-offs heading into the Giantdowns. It had a pioneering, explorative feel to it. But between people not being able to show up all the time and the lack of memorable setting stuff, it quietly died.

It's a shame. Cause I really wanted to like it. Still do.

Heh, yeah, pseudo-Celtic is a pain in the ass for pronunciation/spelling issues. You may like the other culture lands better, as they have more stuff stand out besides the already standard "British Isles sword and sorcery" of Anuire.

Quote from: Opaopajr;589226Heh, yeah, pseudo-Celtic is a pain in the ass for pronunciation/spelling issues. You may like the other culture lands better, as they have more stuff stand out besides the already standard "British Isles sword and sorcery" of Anuire.

Another strength of the setting. You can have Renaissance German swashbucklers (Brecht), sophisticated Near Eastern sorcerers (Khinasi), goddamn Vikings (Rjurik) and grim lizard-riding* Slavic tribesmen (Vos).

* another thing to dislike, the riding lizards. I'd replace them with dire wolves, or dire bears, or even wooly mammooths.

Yeah, dire-snow lizards was one of those trying-too-hard attempts at cool. Almost forgot about that (thanks...). Add that to the things I didn't like.

However I did like how monsters ruled territory. I also liked how awnsheghlien (I went back and looked up the spelling, ) were more complicated than "Full hardcore unreasoning, uncompromising evil, at all times! This Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!"

The Siren, the Vampire, and the Banshee (or was it Banshegh?) were rather tragic figures trying to make something work out with their unintended monstrosity. Blooded humans who'd slain an awnshegh and now tainted, trying to stem their devolution. With that and 'the Shadowlands' mystical dimension overlay it was like an homage to Ravenloft.

Hmm, that makes me wanna run a crossover campaign in one of those territories now...

I liked the riding lizard/serpents with fur. It was very cool to me, which usually such ideas fall flat with me, and I'm "man, what?" but that one just seemed to fit for me.

I'll have to get Tribe of the Heartless Waste to see if they made that creature's ecological backstory worth it. But from what I currently have it doesn't do much for me. Another man's treasure and all...

Quote from: The Butcher;589242Another strength of the setting. You can have Renaissance German swashbucklers (Brecht), sophisticated Near Eastern sorcerers (Khinasi), goddamn Vikings (Rjurik) and grim lizard-riding* Slavic tribesmen (Vos).

You know, you're right. That Khinasi stuff was pretty interesting if I remember right. If I dip my toe back into Birthright, I think I will concentrate my efforts there.

Quote from: 1989;589019I own it, but it never really lit up my imagination. Never DM'ed a single adventure in it.

Seemed like too much structure . . . the domains, and powers and such.

It was pretty, though.

For me it was much the same; I've got nothing against it, but I found it pretty blah.

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Quote from: Corvus;589187All I really remember about Birthright is that it was full of names I couldn't pronounce and couldn't remember how to spell to save my life.

That's something else I disliked about it, yeah.

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What did you like about the setting?
In particular, Vosgard was quite a cool brutal fantasy locale.
The world had many diverse nations to explore.

What didn't you like about it?
The kingdom building mechanics were too cumbersome

What were your games like?
I only had a chance to run one long term campaign, but it was great.
Took place in the cold heartless realm of Vosgard. Lost sof plot lines involving 'Civilized' diplomats daring to enter Vosgard, the Rising of the cult of Loviatar, and ogre magi as the main villains.