Recent content by Bercilac

"Trends" I agree with Wombat on this one. I've used: 1. Barony of Giltram Centralisation of feudal authority, destruction of traditional economies, rebels inspired by the EZLN crossed with Robin Hood. 2. Green Isles Spanish colonisation of Caribbean, rise of merchant capital, destruction...

Metagame shmetagame I really don't believe there's such a thing as metagaming. There's the players. The characters are just sets of objectives they agree to adopt. Of course, the same sheet can mean different objectives to different players. One player looks at an ogre fighter and says...

There's an old tradition of the Australian bush of frying eggs on shovels. The probable source? The First Fleet forgot to bring frying pans. Let the players make mistakes at this stage, and half the plot is written for you already. Before you begin, read a narrative of one of the first white...

Boom! Crash! What happens when the "game" crashes? When the gnomes have gambled everything on so many schemes (and your piracy/trading example implies that they're placing bets on their bets) that a tiny mishap means everyone ends up broke, and there ain't much of a cut left? Do Gnomes only...

Try to work WITH their playing style Aye, character death can be fun. Regarding the original question, here are a couple of ways to get your spellcasters using better spells (a few may have been mentioned before): 1. Have NPCs use them on them. Check that spellcasters have spellcraft...

What game are we playing here? There are two classes of argument posted so far: 1. The characters, having failed a save, believe the illusion. The players are bound by the characters, and must not attempt to reverse their fate. 2. The characters, while not immediately perceiving an...

Lucia had it coming Lucia Teronis was born in the Kzeritz Firelands as part of a clutch of 12 (it was a well-fed year in Kzerit). She grew strong and quickly on the plentiful schools of fish that swam in the magma lakes. Her family were semi-nomadic, following the great shoals in their...

Hello. I ran a campaign a while back called "The Green Isles." It was an island campaign that drew on a variety of sources for its inspiration. I used a bit of anthropology to provide me with the natives (copious drawings of kinship charts to be sternly explained to my one "Ulo-Kawai" player...

This one time... My last campaign ended with civil war. The mercenary company employing the pcs launched a coup against the religious government of the city, and the slaves in the slums rioted en masse. The last encounter was the PCs facing down the Temple Guard (elite goblin fighter/rogues...

Fudging is fun. I would be concerned, here, about consistency. The next time the party runs into the same monsters in your campaign, they might be foolhardy. You may end up having to use your "right" as an obligation more and more often. And that means they won't ever really be fighting the...

Sorry for my frankness. It wasn't well put. The WoW crack was just snarky, on my part. I could be wrong about the bats, but just looking at the HP and damage, considering the average HP and ability to harm that a first-level character is capable of. Are you sure it didn't suggest just one...

One last note, I think that the two dire bats and two dire rats could whoop a first-level party quite handily. There should also be a save against the rats' filth fever.

Don't mean to sound harsh, but... This doesn't actually seem like an adventure to me. It's a series of disconnected challenges (some of which are not, indeed, challenging) set into a rather cliched WoW-like setting. By WoW-like, the universe seems constructed to create and offer interesting...

The intelligence could be a wizard, once lord of the keep, who eventually went insane. He spent his last years designing increasingly complex and powerful constructs. After one of his creations killed a servant, most of the servants abandoned their master to seek less hazardous and stressful...

Seconded.