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Are RPGs Getting Better, or Worse?

Started by Razor 007, January 20, 2019, 12:43:31 AM

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moonsweeper

#120
February 08, 2019, 10:50:57 PM
Quote from: S'mon;1073909I would say the closest fit is Marvel's Savage Sword of Conan comics. Ostensibly it is a Kull/Conan swords and sorcery setting, but because it uses the 5e D&D rules basically unchanged there is a lot of magic in the adventures and (probably) used by the PCs. So it tends to remind me of SSOC, Marvel's take on the Conan mythos - an ostensibly low magic world, with pretty super-heroic protagonists often facing high-magic threats.

Game-wise I find this works brilliantly, it's far easier to run than a genuinely low-magic game, but some people are offended by the disparity. It's incredibly flavour rich; the Heroic Narratives (replacing Backgrounds) are brilliantly done for integrating PCs in the world, and once I took an hour to do a list of all the named NPCs in Quodeth (the starter city) the setting really came to life. I've run two sessions now and it's been some of the best gaming I've had in years.

Free setting taster - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/129630/Primeval-Thule-Travelers-Guide

You can check out my Thule blog at https://simonsprimevalthule.blogspot.com/

Primeval Thule is an awesome setting.  I've been running a weekly 5e game for about 5-6 months now.

The GM Companion https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/168153/Primeval-Thule-5e-GM-Companion?manufacturers_id=6416 and the
Player Companion https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/171518/Primeval-Thule-5e-Players-Companion?manufacturers_id=6416 both have great stuff in them as well.

I've found the adventures useful as well...the authors wrote a variety of different types and they are easy to modify to fit your group/campaign.

I am definitely going to check out your blog S'mon.
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S'mon

#121
February 09, 2019, 03:13:28 AM
Quote from: moonsweeper;1074045Primeval Thule is an awesome setting.  I've been running a weekly 5e game for about 5-6 months now.

The GM Companion https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/168153/Primeval-Thule-5e-GM-Companion?manufacturers_id=6416 and the
Player Companion https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/171518/Primeval-Thule-5e-Players-Companion?manufacturers_id=6416 both have great stuff in them as well.

They have a lot of individual cool stuff, I love the Slayer Barbarian in PC and the encounter tables in GMC. Also more monsters, and the most elegant mass combat system I've seen for D&D!

Delete_me

#122
February 09, 2019, 01:49:17 PM
Mmm... encounter tables. Something too many campaign settings are missing these days!

moonsweeper

#123
February 09, 2019, 04:00:39 PM
Quote from: S'mon;1074065They have a lot of individual cool stuff, I love the Slayer Barbarian in PC and the encounter tables in GMC. Also more monsters, and the most elegant mass combat system I've seen for D&D!

I'm interested in seeing how the mass combat works.  I'll probably know soon since 4 of the 5 PCs in my campaign are going to get followers in a few levels.

The GM screen they did is nifty as well, although I believe this is the only place you can get it from
https://sasquatch-game-studio.myshopify.com/products/primeval-thule-gm-screen-pack

I specifically got it because I knew it had a road atlas style travel matrix in it.  The random plot complication/someone attacks charts are a blast as is the Great Old One gibberish table.  It even comes with a poster map of Quodeth, City of Thieves.  The background starting location cards are useful as well.

...wondering if we should start a new thread for this?
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S'mon

#124
February 09, 2019, 04:51:02 PM
Quote from: moonsweeper;1074111I'm interested in seeing how the mass combat works.  I'll probably know soon since 4 of the 5 PCs in my campaign are going to get followers in a few levels.

The GM screen they did is nifty as well, although I believe this is the only place you can get it from
https://sasquatch-game-studio.myshopify.com/products/primeval-thule-gm-screen-pack

I specifically got it because I knew it had a road atlas style travel matrix in it.  The random plot complication/someone attacks charts are a blast as is the Great Old One gibberish table.  It even comes with a poster map of Quodeth, City of Thieves.  The background starting location cards are useful as well.

...wondering if we should start a new thread for this?

I noticed I couldn't buy that GM's screen anywhere!

A Thule thread could be nice - I know I've had a bunch of queries recently, and been doing stuff like a Quodeth sunset calendar others might find useful.

I noticed that even though 'north' in Thulean Greenland is actually geographic west, towards Canada, the Tower of Dawn in Quodeth that catched the first rays of the rising sun is exactly where it should be to catch the dawn irl... ie real south east if you orient the map the way Greenland actually is. I love those little touches.
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