Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
The
VOIDRUNNER'S CODEX
is coming! Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this comprehensive boxed set expansion for 5E and A5E!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
What is your gaming white whale?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 9074477" data-attributes="member: 5948"><p>Yeah, old Sawney was definitely going to make an appearance. I figured in a D&D game he could very easily be a ghoul and still be around in the early 19th century, but i also kinda like the idea of him having a network of mortal descendants scattered across the landscape as well. Some wealthy Scottish laird might have a touch of Bean in the ancestry for instance. I've always wanted to run a scene where the PCs conclude some delicate bit of negotiation with a touchy warrior lord and are invited to a feast in celebration as guests of honour, only to be served with a glistening, perfectly glazed roast human on a spit as the table centrepiece, as the entire dining hall falls ominously silent and looks at them eagerly...</p><p></p><p>This whole idea actually sprung from a post VRGtR desire to rewrite the old Ravenloft Core into something more culturally coherent, with all the generally British-coded domains together. So Paridon as the capital city, Nosos as the rapidly growing industrial wastelands, Mordent as the small town countryside, Lamordia as the expression of the new rationality, etc etc. Forlorn a relic of an old kingdom, on an island in a loch somewhere. </p><p></p><p>I've got a whole revision of Soth, where he's a kinda semi-Lancelot figure whose affair with not-Guinevere led to him failing to join not-Arthur on the battlefield against not-Mordred, leading to the death of the Arthur and the fall of not-Camelot. Soth had been the greatest knight of the Round Table and his chivalry and piety had impressed an ancient red dragon so much it converted and agreed to serve as his steed, but his fall left the beast embittered and now it stews in eternal contempt for the flaws of man and its own gullibility.</p><p></p><p>Elves are ex-fey, fey who were so jaded or bored with meaningless forever in the fey realm that they willing gave up eternity for the chance to feel, touch, suffer, love, and die in the mortal world. Goblins are the low-level menial fey who escaped service to the fey lords and managed to stay in the material realm long enough to go native - they NEVER want to go back. </p><p></p><p>The great war on the Continent, which continually sucks redcoated regiments in and spits them out, began as a long-running dynastic squabble between the long-interbred aasimar royal houses of different nations (the line of succession is HARD to work out when things like resurrection spells, reincarnation, long-term petrification, vampirism, etc etc etc come into play), but French Revolution brought a Napoleon-figure into play who pretty much wants to wipe them all clean and start a new order. England is torn between its loathing of monarchicides and distrust of the louche, decadent aasimar aristocrat refugees who are increasingly fixtures at local garden parties.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 9074477, member: 5948"] Yeah, old Sawney was definitely going to make an appearance. I figured in a D&D game he could very easily be a ghoul and still be around in the early 19th century, but i also kinda like the idea of him having a network of mortal descendants scattered across the landscape as well. Some wealthy Scottish laird might have a touch of Bean in the ancestry for instance. I've always wanted to run a scene where the PCs conclude some delicate bit of negotiation with a touchy warrior lord and are invited to a feast in celebration as guests of honour, only to be served with a glistening, perfectly glazed roast human on a spit as the table centrepiece, as the entire dining hall falls ominously silent and looks at them eagerly... This whole idea actually sprung from a post VRGtR desire to rewrite the old Ravenloft Core into something more culturally coherent, with all the generally British-coded domains together. So Paridon as the capital city, Nosos as the rapidly growing industrial wastelands, Mordent as the small town countryside, Lamordia as the expression of the new rationality, etc etc. Forlorn a relic of an old kingdom, on an island in a loch somewhere. I've got a whole revision of Soth, where he's a kinda semi-Lancelot figure whose affair with not-Guinevere led to him failing to join not-Arthur on the battlefield against not-Mordred, leading to the death of the Arthur and the fall of not-Camelot. Soth had been the greatest knight of the Round Table and his chivalry and piety had impressed an ancient red dragon so much it converted and agreed to serve as his steed, but his fall left the beast embittered and now it stews in eternal contempt for the flaws of man and its own gullibility. Elves are ex-fey, fey who were so jaded or bored with meaningless forever in the fey realm that they willing gave up eternity for the chance to feel, touch, suffer, love, and die in the mortal world. Goblins are the low-level menial fey who escaped service to the fey lords and managed to stay in the material realm long enough to go native - they NEVER want to go back. The great war on the Continent, which continually sucks redcoated regiments in and spits them out, began as a long-running dynastic squabble between the long-interbred aasimar royal houses of different nations (the line of succession is HARD to work out when things like resurrection spells, reincarnation, long-term petrification, vampirism, etc etc etc come into play), but French Revolution brought a Napoleon-figure into play who pretty much wants to wipe them all clean and start a new order. England is torn between its loathing of monarchicides and distrust of the louche, decadent aasimar aristocrat refugees who are increasingly fixtures at local garden parties. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
What is your gaming white whale?
Top