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Andy Law designed a beautiful map. Not sure if the same one mamba mentioned. It’s ok his ArtStation website. https://andylaw1.artstation.com/projects/oOA4mw

Start with a country wedding or fair. Lots of mead, wine, good food, music & dancing. Then have it attacked by the main antagonist of your campaigns. Throw in one of the guests betraying the event and have that pathetic villain keep coming back, playing the victim, blaming the attack on the PCs...

A Good Memory. There is so much to remember, from rules, to what you agreed too last session, to what the NPCs are planning. You can write stuff down but who has time to go poring through notes. When you’ve got a good memory not only is it easier to run the game, you don’t need to be as...

A great idea for a campaign I had was for a party of young second and third children attending the Imperial College of Heraldry in Anuire. They are invited to ‘intern’ as heralds at a major event - the Crown and Sword or some such - and detect something foul at play. The uncover a plot but a...

I agree. I think they won’t make it because there are easier products to make that require less effort. That said, it doesn’t mean it isn’t worth making. Can you imagine the creativity that would come out of DM guild for all the different domains. These were perfect for 36 page pamphlet sized...

Sorry to say this but this conclusion isn’t based on fact. The gods whose divine essence you inherited are dead and gone. This isn’t about their chosen people getting to rule, it’s about those present at the battle being empowered by witnessing that massive continental event that links them to...

You could extend that to the noble houses and rulers of any fantasy series though. I get that in a modern age we believe in meritocracy and for the most part democracy. But in medieval fantasy settings we happily accept that the king of X country inherited the title, or was born to? Should we...

I might be wrong but I think you’re misunderstanding how the setting and layering a few assumptions onto it. There are multiple examples (including the starter realms) of a regent inheriting the bloodline and the title because they were the best person for the job. It’s not physical it’s...

I’ve recently started a campaign - Dungeons of Drakkenheim. At level 1, the players travelled to the city. Dealt with a bandit ambush on the road. Dealt with a set of fellow adventures and a minor combat encounter that ensued. Explored the starter homebase settlement having interaction with...

It’s supposed to be a royal knight of Cormyr. I don’t get the purple dragon hatchling. Just don’t get it.

Each to their own. D&D is a broad church and folks are able to play it in different ways. I think this thread alone should convince you though that Birthright touched more people than would be expected for the throw away grift of a flailing TSR. They put something together that was original for...

Let me see if I can state why I think the setting itself is boss. The Old Gods fought a war for the heavens with their mortal champions as proxies. On one side the Shadow, Azrai, on the other the six gods. They sacrificed themselves to defeat Azrai. The resulting explosion separated the...

I’ve cried from Monopoly. Mainly when I was 3 hours in, with no end in sight!

In principle, a significant expansion of that but yes in principle. Abstract, bastions with revenue generating properties, morale levels and moveable dials for various measures. Holdings in Birthright aren’t just buildings though, they represent networks, followers and relationships though as well.

Stormfront was also an IT shop, I believe, that sold iPad stations for cafe’s and businesses. We definitely have to not cede ground to nutters. There are too many people on the planet to avoid all references to all things. We need to pick our battles.

I disagree. That expression invokes racial elements, promised lands and territorialism which I don’t think are baked into the Birthright setting. As I said in my previous post anyone can come to rule a domain, there is no racial prerequisite. It’s worth noting that there is also nothing about...

I’ve been thinking about Domain play for Birthright and I think it could be a lot simpler than one would think to implement for a few reasons. - Domain Actions could be repurposed as Down Time activities. Players have the choice to research that Magic item, train in a temple, or expand their...

A little fact checking needed in this post. This isn’t true. Anyone can be a regent, and any race you don’t need to be a noble, or human. Regency is a magical investiture of a dead gods power. You can be born to it, but you can also have it passed to you, or steal it. For instance Rogr Aglondier...

Honestly very excited by the prospect of a great quality published adventure. That has always been Eberron’s one big failing to my mind. No test drive for what the setting can do. I ran Rise of the Runelords in Eberron for 5e and frankly it worked brilliantly. The mix of giants and ancient...

Spell checkers now look at the whole grammar of a sentence and can guess what word you might have intended from the rest of the sentence. Correcting words that sound like other words or bear passing resemblance to the word you intended. It’s the only way I’m able to type legible English on an...