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Post by Atlantis on Sept 8, 2004 13:35:51 GMT
This is for you PnP'rs out there! (Which includes me  ) We all like the realm of Faerun and other Forgotten Realm stuff, but any of you interested in the other campaign settings that DnD has to offer; which includes: Oriental, Ravenloft, Ghostwalk, Dragonlance, Eberron, and of course Greyhawk plus a few others I can't think of at the moment. So, which ones do or did you played? Oh yeah, forgot to mention the campaign i'll go into which is Eberron. |
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Post by abadon on Sept 8, 2004 14:31:36 GMT
I like Forgotten Realm's... I tried dragonlance and greyhawk and to me they both sounded stupid.
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serpitus
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Post by serpitus on Sept 8, 2004 19:41:40 GMT
Well I have played PnP for longer than I would like to admit. Of the settings that are available I have played most. Each has good stuff and probably why they were made.
Some you forgot
BirthRight, had a good and usefull mass battle interface. Had a nice way of running a city or such. If you like the RP that is generated from that. I didn't like the blooded stuff. Seemed a bit monty haul to me.
Kalamar, hands down the best modules written for any PnP. They were works of art. It did get lost in the mix of all the new stuff generated at the time period and lost some luster when 3.5 came out.
Dark Sun, for the Hard core out there. Stone axes and no (limited) magic. Really popular if you liked being burdened. Unfortunately it was heavy on psionics before psionics were fleshed out. There was a lot of confusion created by that.
Of course it was always best to make your own world. That was my solution.
My 0.02
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Aboxorox
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Post by Aboxorox on Sept 9, 2004 0:09:46 GMT
I never actually played any other PnP worlds on NWN but Dragonlance is something that interests me. I have the books on my shelf waiting to be read as soon as I finish Guardians of the Flame series. As to leaving this server and finding a PnP world, I think not.
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Post by Silentus on Sept 9, 2004 20:25:44 GMT
Mostly we did Forgotten realms (and greyhawk before it). But I was a bit more of a ruleset junky than the actual realms it was being played in. I was so unhappy with Original, AD&D, and 2nd Ed that I had develped my own ruleset in which everything was bought with XP - no levels - no classes. Everyone was a specialist in whatever they felt like doing. The incredibly hard part was that I used TSRs spells, saves, skills, weapons, monsters, etc - so figuring out the cost to progress in any given option was very difficult (read as nigh impossible) to keep balanced. It stayed pretty balanced for the main class based stuff, but if you wanted to be a twink and focus soly on something odd (like saving throws for instance) the balance sometimes would get a little wonky. By the time 3rd Ed came out, my system was pretty good (tons of tweaking by that time), but I scrapped it for standardization. 3rd ed is nowhere near as good, but its not terrible and everyone who plays PnP has the books.
(Dont even get me started on the farce that was 3.5 Ed - Hasbro really just took the $ from T$R and ran with it)
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serpitus
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Post by serpitus on Sept 9, 2004 20:56:55 GMT
Silentus you should have tried rolemaster. As a rule junkie you would have loved that system. I got a chance to play a while but there was only one person I knew with enough knowledge of the books to GM a game and when he had his first child, he became less available. But yeah you would love it! ;D
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) We all like the realm of Faerun and other Forgotten Realm stuff, but any of you interested in the other campaign settings that DnD has to offer; which includes: Oriental, Ravenloft, Ghostwalk, Dragonlance, Eberron, and of course Greyhawk plus a few others I can't think of at the moment. So, which ones do or did you played?
