African Adventures: I Want More!

[ptolemy18]

Hello everyone,

The characters in my current campaign are going to Africa, and I am using Atlas Games' awesome, but now discontinued, AFRICAN ADVENTURES for reference. I already have things plotted out, of course, but reading AFRICAN ADVENTURES again (I have all three books: the core book, the treasure supplement ANCESTRAL VAULT, and the module DIRE SPIRITS) makes me wish there was more available.

I've been to the excellent "www.nyambe.com" fan site, but I was wondering -- does anyone know of any good modules or supplements which could be adapted to an Africa-like setting? "www.nyambe.com" has a lot of good monsters and stuff, but only one short sample adventure.

I'm sick of boring pseudo-European settings. I must have more AFRICAN ADVENTURES!

Jason

P.S. I doubt there's enough demand for it, but... if Green Ronin bought the rights to AFRICAN ADVENTURES, they would be my eternal favorite third-party D&D publisher. Instead of just one of my two eternal favorite third-party D&D publishers.

 

[Voadam]

Hamunaptra, the Green Ronin D&Dified Egypt supplement looks like a counterpart that would fit well into, oh, say the northeast part of the pseudo africa.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

It could be tough to find - try eBay - but "Aesheba: Greek Africa" is nice, generic setting for any fantasy RPG. It was written back in the late 80s, as I recall; my copy is not handy. It had a continent that wasn't quite Africa, which was colonized by a small, but vigorous, classical Greek group of settlers.

Edit: Interestingly, the role of an Egyptian-like civillization was minimized by making the Nile-analog much smaller and less important.

 

[Voadam]

I should say that while Hamunaptra looks good and the same style as Nyambe (pseudo analagous area with full D&Disms) I don't own it and have not read it so I can only speculate that it would be good based on other Green Ronin works and the two authors involved and the promo info on the sets.

I forget, doesn't Nyambe have an arabian type culture up in that Northeast area? Might check out old ESDs or print copies of Al'Qudim.

 

[William Ronald]

I should say that while Hamunaptra looks good and the same style as Nyambe (pseudo analagous area with full D&Disms) I don't own it and have not read it so I can only speculate that it would be good based on other Green Ronin works and the two authors involved and the promo info on the sets.

I forget, doesn't Nyambe have an arabian type culture up in that Northeast area? Might check out old ESDs or print copies of Al'Qudim.

I think that anyone who likes Nyambe will probably like Hamunaptra. Threre is also a Middle-Eastern culture that has an influence on parts on Nyambe. If you check the linked sites here at EN World, I believe there is a map of the al-Qadim area under Inzeladun.

 

[William Ronald]

Here is the link to the map of Zakhara .

 

[ptolemy18]

Hamunaptra, the Green Ronin D&Dified Egypt supplement looks like a counterpart that would fit well into, oh, say the northeast part of the pseudo africa.

Actually, I'm already using HAMUNAPTRA (that's where the player characters are coming from). It's a great setting.

Since there isn't much in the way of published AFRICAN ADVENTURES supplements, I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations for good generic "adventure in the jungle" or (I can dream) "adventure in the savannah" type modules. Preferably with some fairly well-depicted African-style towns or cities, rather than just stereotypical 0-level natives. (I already have a few old, old modules like THE ISLE OF DREAD and DWELLERS IN THE FORBIDDEN CITY, which are pretty stereotypical and not really "African", but if you took those modules and added some genuine African-ness, it would be pretty much what I'm looking for.)

Jason

 

[ptolemy18]

It could be tough to find - try eBay - but "Aesheba: Greek Africa" is nice, generic setting for any fantasy RPG. It was written back in the late 80s, as I recall; my copy is not handy. It had a continent that wasn't quite Africa, which was colonized by a small, but vigorous, classical Greek group of settlers.

Edit: Interestingly, the role of an Egyptian-like civillization was minimized by making the Nile-analog much smaller and less important.

Thanks for the "Aesheba" tip. It looks pretty cool! I guess that's the nearest anyone's ever done to a "Cyrenaica" campaign setting (and that's my obscure historical reference for the day).

Jason

 

[Dragonhelm]

There was a series of African Adventures articles in Dragon, back in the 2e days. I don't remember the numbers right off.

Also, look into jungles of Chult in the Forgotten Realms. If memory serves, that's also African-based.

 

[JoeGKushner]

There was a series of African Adventures articles in Dragon, back in the 2e days. I don't remember the numbers right off.

Also, look into jungles of Chult in the Forgotten Realms. If memory serves, that's also African-based.

There were a few series of articles not adventuers. The jungle style adventuers, like Elephant's Graveyard, were Dungeon.