Anybody ever run the Twin Crowns campaign setting?

[CarlZog]

I've had a copy of Living Imagination's "Twin Crowns" campaign setting for a long time, and I've used its naval rules and LI's City of Silver, but now I'm thinking of trying to set up a full-fledged campaign in it. The more I dig into it, the more I think I like its religious set-up, renaissance feel and swashbuckling potential.

Has anybody ever really embraced this setting, run a full campaign in it, etc? If so, how did it work? What did you like, not like? What kind of adventures and plotlines did you run?

Thanks.

Carl

 

[Voadam]

I used it as the setting for a few short games. I had it set in the new world where the elves are the bad guys and the orcs are a potential ally source. I had the party head out towards the ohio area with a keep on the borderlands set up. I had three modules ready to go for 3e, Return to Keep on the Borderlands, Hackmasters B1 In Search of the Unknown and Cloudcastle. They went with the Cloudcastle hooks and headed out to a wizard's tower overrun by orcs and elves. Unlike in the module assumptions they allied with the orcs and fought off the psycho war elves.

I like the rituals to set up fortresses quick as a great campaign background element giving a cool fantasy slant on medieval colonies in the new world.

With the real world land and culture analogues it was easy to get a feel for the environment of where the party was, do NPC characterization archetypes on the fly, and have a sense of the cultural background for the PCs.

I love the Twin Crowns rituals.

 

[jdrakeh]

I haven't even read it -- but I want to. I have wanted to for a while; I just never get around to picking it up. It always looked like (despite the license violations) to be a remarkably interesting setting and I was sorry to see it go the way of the dodo.

 

[CarlZog]

I was sorry to see it go the way of the dodo.

Like most of LI's products, it seemed to get good reviews but somehow managed to still fly under most people's radar. I love LI's Broadsides!, and City of Silver -- which were equally underdogs. Based of what I've now seen of the ritual system in Twin Crowns, I'm planning on picking up Spellbound as well. I'm very sorry they're not still producing.

Carl

 

[Psion]

The Twin Crowns setting didn't light my fire, but Streets of Silver was one of the better D20 city books. Still easily in my top 3 city books.