Draw Steel General Thread [+]

I think Draw Steel! might be a perfect game to use the 4e Neverwinter Campaign Setting with. Nice an open sandbox, the Theme backgrounds can be overlayed on a DS! character without issue; the Shapeshifter stuff can be a Complication (there's one there already for wolves); etc.

Well I went ahead and turned this into a full campaign frame (yes Daggerheart just has me doing this by default now). None of us are FR lore geeks so we can just vibe it (most of my affection is because BG2 was a formative experience for me, lol), and the weirdness of the 4e / Spellplague timeframe is pretty perfect for adventuring. Plus who doesn't love Netherese flying cities and dramatic undead animating wizards in red robes.

I was able to find 4e FR homes for most of the DS! ancestries, apart from Revenant and Time Raider (which I already don't like anyway). Revenant would be great in an Eberron game though! Somewhat amused at how much DS! stuff aligns with some core concepts from the 4e setups anyway (eg: FR Dragonborn).

Looking through the list of presented enemies and I think there's a decent analogue for most of them already. May re-write some profiles to add the specific flavor the NCS factions want, but that shouldn't be too much.

The special sauce here is of course the backstory + goals of the Themes and the wonderful list of factions and their own goals as laid out.
 

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