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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 8016292" data-attributes="member: 63"><p>So you want adventures with new characters, in other time periods, not adventures with the current PCs?</p><p></p><p>One of the challenges with historical adventures in Zeitgeist is that when you shift to pre-industrial, a lot of the setting's aesthetic shifts and it might start to feel like generic fantasy. Which isn't the worst thing, but you may as well play to the tropes of the setting.</p><p></p><p>The more elements you include from this list, the more it feels like setting-specific: the dreaming and bleak gate, stars having influence, recently developed and experimental technology or magic, ideological clashes where the antagonists think they're doing the right thing, conspiracies, investigations, revolutions.</p><p></p><p>So a big war against demons with Triegenes or a battle in the Second Victory might not feel right, but what might feel closer to the right one would be some event with a more intellectual conflict while the physical conflict is going on in the background. Maybe Triegenes's army has besieged a Demonocracy-controlled city (which would have, like, a late-Roman Empire flavor, I'm thinking), but the demon duke of the city is rumored to have some new magic that will wipe out the army, so the PCs undertake a mission into the wretched city to find out and possibly destroy the magic. I'm not sure what level you want the adventure to be, but maybe T could be a PC.</p><p></p><p>And the city is renowned for its Delphi-esque oracles - who are enslaved and tortured skyseers from Risur (which is probably going through a King Arthur-esque phase). But due to some new psychic magic the current demon leader has developed, the skyseers don't simply glimpse the future, they can create a pocket of the Dreaming that takes on the shape of that future. </p><p></p><p>And there's a comet overhead that comes back every five hundred years, which is letting the skyseers see much farther ahead, and so you get a glimpse of the Great Malice. And Triegenes and his followers get to see that his religion will keep on shedding blood for centuries.</p><p></p><p>That's the backdrop that comes to mind, but I don't know where it goes or what the PCs are actually trying to do. It's 4am, so I'll see if some ideas come to me as I sleep.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 8016292, member: 63"] So you want adventures with new characters, in other time periods, not adventures with the current PCs? One of the challenges with historical adventures in Zeitgeist is that when you shift to pre-industrial, a lot of the setting's aesthetic shifts and it might start to feel like generic fantasy. Which isn't the worst thing, but you may as well play to the tropes of the setting. The more elements you include from this list, the more it feels like setting-specific: the dreaming and bleak gate, stars having influence, recently developed and experimental technology or magic, ideological clashes where the antagonists think they're doing the right thing, conspiracies, investigations, revolutions. So a big war against demons with Triegenes or a battle in the Second Victory might not feel right, but what might feel closer to the right one would be some event with a more intellectual conflict while the physical conflict is going on in the background. Maybe Triegenes's army has besieged a Demonocracy-controlled city (which would have, like, a late-Roman Empire flavor, I'm thinking), but the demon duke of the city is rumored to have some new magic that will wipe out the army, so the PCs undertake a mission into the wretched city to find out and possibly destroy the magic. I'm not sure what level you want the adventure to be, but maybe T could be a PC. And the city is renowned for its Delphi-esque oracles - who are enslaved and tortured skyseers from Risur (which is probably going through a King Arthur-esque phase). But due to some new psychic magic the current demon leader has developed, the skyseers don't simply glimpse the future, they can create a pocket of the Dreaming that takes on the shape of that future. And there's a comet overhead that comes back every five hundred years, which is letting the skyseers see much farther ahead, and so you get a glimpse of the Great Malice. And Triegenes and his followers get to see that his religion will keep on shedding blood for centuries. That's the backdrop that comes to mind, but I don't know where it goes or what the PCs are actually trying to do. It's 4am, so I'll see if some ideas come to me as I sleep. [/QUOTE]
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