Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
White Dwarf Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Nest
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
EN Publishing
Twitter
BlueSky
Facebook
Instagram
EN World
BlueSky
YouTube
Facebook
Twitter
Twitch
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
Campaigns, Cross-overs, and You (my thoughts on world crossovers)
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Love of Awesome" data-source="post: 5378879" data-attributes="member: 95656"><p>Okay, this first part is being written on a ps3, so i'm not going to do alot of writing at the moment, but i will elaborate l later.</p><p></p><p>We've all wanted to do it. Feel no shame. No matter how badly your mind throws up, we've all probably thought one of two things, or both; What would it be like if (insert favorite setting A) were to meet (insert favorite setting B)? or what would it be like if (insert real world place) were to meet (insert favorite setting)? Either these two questions have entered your mind, or some sort of variation of them. We'll i had the latter thought, and it was just to juicy to ignore.... What would happen if an american city were to be sent to Eberron?</p><p></p><p>It was actually pretty fun, and it provoked alot of thought about running crossover campaigns, which i will be putting here.... just as soon as i get onto a real computer. Hang on.</p><p></p><p>Sorry, long day....</p><p>Anyways, i'm not really going to cover "When Campaigns meet" sort of thing, cause i just remembered about Spelljammers.</p><p></p><p>Okay first part</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">And the entire city just disappeared in the flash of an eye! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px">This is the type of campaign i ran, so this is where i'm going to begin. The quintessential "modern american city get's warped into fantasy world" story is probably the Ring of Fire series written by Eric Flint. A small town from West Virginia get's thrown into Germany during the thirty years war. Okay not "Fantasy", but it would probably work as a low magic setting. I based my campaign set in eberron loosely around this. (By the way Eric Flint made 1632 and 1633 available for free on baens publishing company). I'm going to use my campaign as an example because i don't want to spoil anything about TRoF.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 12px">Send the town somewhere "logical"</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span>Okay, let's look at 1632 (it's not really spoiling anything). The town of Grantville was sent into southern germany. Specifically Thuringia. What would they have to face? Brutal mercenaries at first. But it's not that big of a threat. The mercenaries are armed with muskets, and brute strength. The americans are armed with machine guns, vehicles, grenades, etc., etc. The undisciplined brutes don't stand a chance. It was a good way to start out the story. If Grantville were to have been warped into, let's say France rather than Germany. You can bet that the town would have been eventually overrun, and destroyed. Sure they have advanced technology but eventually you have to run out of ammo, and France has entire armies. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px">In my own campaign, i sent the town of Liberty (a fictional town i came up with, if you happen to be from a city who's name is Liberty, this is coincidental) into the Torlaac Moor (Southern Darguun). I'm not a very cruel DM, so i set up a situation where it was easy for a "United States of Khorvaire" to be created. Still you may not want to make it easy, which is fine, but don't make it impossible.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 12px">Limitations</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 10px">Will come later.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Love of Awesome, post: 5378879, member: 95656"] Okay, this first part is being written on a ps3, so i'm not going to do alot of writing at the moment, but i will elaborate l later. We've all wanted to do it. Feel no shame. No matter how badly your mind throws up, we've all probably thought one of two things, or both; What would it be like if (insert favorite setting A) were to meet (insert favorite setting B)? or what would it be like if (insert real world place) were to meet (insert favorite setting)? Either these two questions have entered your mind, or some sort of variation of them. We'll i had the latter thought, and it was just to juicy to ignore.... What would happen if an american city were to be sent to Eberron? It was actually pretty fun, and it provoked alot of thought about running crossover campaigns, which i will be putting here.... just as soon as i get onto a real computer. Hang on. Sorry, long day.... Anyways, i'm not really going to cover "When Campaigns meet" sort of thing, cause i just remembered about Spelljammers. Okay first part [SIZE=4]And the entire city just disappeared in the flash of an eye! [SIZE=2]This is the type of campaign i ran, so this is where i'm going to begin. The quintessential "modern american city get's warped into fantasy world" story is probably the Ring of Fire series written by Eric Flint. A small town from West Virginia get's thrown into Germany during the thirty years war. Okay not "Fantasy", but it would probably work as a low magic setting. I based my campaign set in eberron loosely around this. (By the way Eric Flint made 1632 and 1633 available for free on baens publishing company). I'm going to use my campaign as an example because i don't want to spoil anything about TRoF. [SIZE=3]Send the town somewhere "logical" [/SIZE]Okay, let's look at 1632 (it's not really spoiling anything). The town of Grantville was sent into southern germany. Specifically Thuringia. What would they have to face? Brutal mercenaries at first. But it's not that big of a threat. The mercenaries are armed with muskets, and brute strength. The americans are armed with machine guns, vehicles, grenades, etc., etc. The undisciplined brutes don't stand a chance. It was a good way to start out the story. If Grantville were to have been warped into, let's say France rather than Germany. You can bet that the town would have been eventually overrun, and destroyed. Sure they have advanced technology but eventually you have to run out of ammo, and France has entire armies. In my own campaign, i sent the town of Liberty (a fictional town i came up with, if you happen to be from a city who's name is Liberty, this is coincidental) into the Torlaac Moor (Southern Darguun). I'm not a very cruel DM, so i set up a situation where it was easy for a "United States of Khorvaire" to be created. Still you may not want to make it easy, which is fine, but don't make it impossible. [SIZE=3] Limitations [SIZE=2]Will come later.[/SIZE] [/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*TTRPGs General
Campaigns, Cross-overs, and You (my thoughts on world crossovers)
Top