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<blockquote data-quote="JohnSnow" data-source="post: 3870631" data-attributes="member: 32164">Okay, I'm a huge Wheel of Time fan, and I have to say that, with the exception of a couple of subsystems, the Campaign Book did a pretty poor job of emulating the setting - mechanically, that is. Especially when it comes to magic.If you want to take a crack at playing in the world of the Wheel of Time, I'd recommend picking up Fantasy Flight's Midnight campaign setting. The setting isn't perfect but the magic system and some of the subsystems (like Heroic Paths) are a much better fit for that series than the standard 3e ones. The casting class is even called the Channeler and they introduce rules for casting in groups and using talismans (which play a lot like angreal and sa'angreal). I'd use those channeling rules in combination with the &quot;powers&quot; from the WoT game would be much better than the default magic system in the game.However, I have a feeling 4e might require much less conversion than 3e. For example, you might just have to come up with elemental traditions for wizards to take care of the Aes Sedai. Porting over the madness rules from the 3e WoT game would be one of the only necessary changes. 4e characters certainly sound less item-dependent, which is only a good thing as far as emulating the feel of Jordan's world. That means you may be able to do with a couple minor new subsystems rather than a whole new game system.Game-breaking characters like the ta'veren might need a couple &quot;extra powers.&quot; Converting Midnight's Heroic Paths might take care of that. There's ones for being more powerful channeler (oddly called &quot;Dragonblooded&quot;... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ), for being a born tactician, for having a special bond with a type of animal, and even predicting the future.All in all, very interesting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JohnSnow, post: 3870631, member: 32164"] Okay, I'm a huge [i]Wheel of Time[/i] fan, and I have to say that, with the exception of a couple of subsystems, the Campaign Book did a pretty poor job of emulating the setting - mechanically, that is. Especially when it comes to magic. If you want to take a crack at playing in the world of the [i]Wheel of Time,[/i] I'd recommend picking up Fantasy Flight's [i]Midnight[/i] campaign setting. The setting isn't perfect but the magic system and some of the subsystems (like Heroic Paths) are a much better fit for that series than the standard 3e ones. The casting class is even called the Channeler and they introduce rules for casting in groups and using talismans (which play a lot like angreal and sa'angreal). I'd use those channeling rules in combination with the "powers" from the WoT game would be much better than the default magic system in the game. However, I have a feeling 4e might require much less conversion than 3e. For example, you might just have to come up with elemental traditions for wizards to take care of the Aes Sedai. Porting over the madness rules from the 3e WoT game would be one of the only necessary changes. 4e characters certainly sound less item-dependent, which is only a good thing as far as emulating the feel of Jordan's world. That means you may be able to do with a couple minor new subsystems rather than a whole new game system. Game-breaking characters like the ta'veren might need a couple "extra powers." Converting [i]Midnight[/i]'s Heroic Paths might take care of that. There's ones for being more powerful channeler (oddly called "Dragonblooded"... ;) ), for being a born tactician, for having a special bond with a type of animal, and even predicting the future. All in all, very interesting. [/QUOTE]

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