D&D 5E Not Aegyptus

[Zardnaar]

Due to lockdowns and Covid restrictions we haven't been able to play since August. Rules are relaxing soon though and theoretically will be able to play with vaccine mandates.

Anyway since I'm probably gonna lose several players (one no vaz, one moved in lockdown, medicine school perhaps( I'm starting a new game. A couple of years ago I ran an Egyptian themed game using Midgards Nuria Natal.

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Anyway looking at running Aegyptus 2.0. Might use Nuria Natal or base it in Nuria Natal as I have a rough idea what I want to do. After some ideas, cheesy is fine.

Inspiration. Ancient Egypt, The Mummy movies/books, Assassin's Creed Origins, The Bible, Gods of Egypt movie.

 

[Zardnaar]

Brainstorm List/ Rough ideas so far.

Order vs Chaos.

Not Egypt set in fantasy bronze age collapse political set up.

Pre dynastic Ancient Asu(mechanically high elves).

Factions. The Hidden/Hidden Ones (assassin's), Cult of the Scarab (entropy death cult),

Spotlighted Races. Dragonborn, Dwarves, Gnolls, Humans, Kenku, Minotaurs, Ratfolk, Werelions,

Plotlines. Ancient secrets, raiders from the north (fantasy sea peoples).

Themes. Deserts, poison, tombs, undead

 

[aco175]

Sounds like a good list so far. I always liked the feel of ancient Egypt for games. I have not used gnolls that much recently, but they fit perfectly for this and a desert adventure. Love the movie's pigmy skeletons, not sure if they have become political though.

 

[Zardnaar]

Forgot to mention something like the Savage Tide AP except of becoming a mutant you become undead.

 

[pukunui]

I’ve been wanting to do an ancient Egypt campaign since reading about the Egyptian-themed Domain of Dread in Van Richten’s guide.

there was also a thread on here that mentioned a decent Pathfinder AP that was Egyptian themed.

I wish WotC would put out some adventures based in the other Ravenloft domains.

 

[Zardnaar]

I’ve been wanting to do an ancient Egypt campaign since reading about the Egyptian-themed Domain of Dread in Van Richten’s guide.

there was also a thread on here that mentioned a decent Pathfinder AP that was Egyptian themed.

I wish WotC would put out some adventures based in the other Ravenloft domains.

Yeah I recyled pt one of the Pathfinder AP last time around. Perhaps I can just steal more from it lol.

I also have some Quests of Doom, Pharoah and Another DoD adventure to mine.

 

[GuyBoy]

Might be worth looking at Gary Gygax’s Necropolis. The 3e version was great and I believe Frog God have launched a 5e version.

 

[jayoungr]

I love Nuria Natal. Did you know that Kobold Press has (finally) released a 5E version of their Southlands setting book, along with several adventures?

 

[not-so-newguy]

If you own a copy of Yawning Portal, you might throw the Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan in there somewhere. It's a heavily trapped dungeon based on Aztec culture and a Vampire cult. It looks like it has plenty of puzzles that hurt your players' brains, and probably yours too.

 

[Zardnaar]

If you own a copy of Yawning Portal, you might throw the Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan in there somewhere. It's a heavily trapped dungeon based on Aztec culture and a Vampire cult. It looks like it has plenty of puzzles that hurt your players' brains, and probably yours too.

Yeah I own that.