AD&D 2E Al-Qadim campaign setting

[cbwjm]

Just won an auction for all of the Al Qadim boxed sets except for the campaign setting.

Now to find someone who wants to run it.

Oh nice, that must have been a great moment winning that, I think every auction I've seen quickly gets outside my price range.

 

[sevenbastard]

The core rule book was very pretty. I never ran it but is was great to look at.

 

[Celebrim]

I never ran it, but it fits in neatly as a part of the world in my heavily animistic psuedo-European default setting. I love a world haunted by spirits, and the genie are just another variety of species of spirit. In fact, in my setting they are explicitly the rulers of the elemental fairies, and thus close kin to the Sidhe. It is thus totally my "jam" and I would totally run a campaign in a setting inspired by the lore, though at this point probably not with the exact mechanics.

I did brainstorming for the setting in this excellent thread What do the PCs find in a City of the Jann? by @Quickleaf, which was a ton of fun and I could have churned out pages and pages more ideas if left to ruminant on it:

 

[Fenris-77]

I'm going to have to re-read it. I'm transforming the Tomb Kings of the Old World into something much more nuanced and cosmopolitan. More Ottoman or Mameluke then Egyptian per se. There will still be mummies.

 

[thorr-kan]

With the GM's sale on at the moment I decided to complete my collection of Al-Qadim PDFs from the DMs Guild. I never actually got to play this setting, but I absolutely love it.

You have revealed yourself to be an adventurer of taste and culture.

Jeff Grubb, the author of a lot of Al-Qadim materials has an interesting behindg-the-scenes reminisce here:

GRUBB STREET

Jeff Grubb's Ruminations, Comments, and Other Nonsense

grubbstreet.blogspot.com

Al-Qadim is the One, True Way to play AD&D 2E. I will die on this hill. But then, my prejudices are well known.

The college gaming group played AQ the year Arabian Adventures came out. One suite-mate was taking an Islamic law class, had never DM'd before, and was inspired. It was lightning in a bottle, and we spend the next 4 years trying to recapture it with various AQ campaigns. Overall, we did; good times, good times.

Fast forward a few years, and I picked up a post-college gaming group. I conned them into letting me try an Al-Qadim campaign. I was successful enough we've come back to it off and on for the last 26 years. Two of them have also run Al-Qadim adventures, so I even get to play sometimes!

I envy you being able to discover this for the first time. Enjoy your reading!