Fields of Blood internet play suggestions?

[Emiricol]

As I posted in another forum (unintentionally hijacking the thread), I am seriously considering putting together a Fields of Blood campaign. I have a lot of ideas, but could use any thoughts you folks might have

Here's where I'm at with a game I am considering putting together. What do you think?

• I've done up a map, and am considering playing/running a game of FoB. It'd be eight realms total - 4 human, and 1 each of Elf, Dwarf, Orc and Hobgoblin. Each player would dice for the order they pick races in. Then, each player would pick their capitol hex in the order of elf/dwarf/hobgoblin/humans/orc.
• Players would then each pick X number of hexes, but they have to be continuous. I'm thinking of 8 additional hexes each to give the game a sort of jump start; once the hexes were selected, the DM or player would roll as per p112 (Step 3) to see whether hexes adjacent to the capitol had a Thorpe, Hamlet or Village. Per the same section, the remaining hex would have a 50% chance to have a thorpe.
• I'll have a single custom rule to make large empires financially manageable (the rules penalize anything over 10 hexes quite heavily).
• Undecided whether I'll play or just DM.
• The game would progress at two game weeks per real week (Tuesday and Friday deadlines). That'd give people time to do their stuff. If they didn't have their turn in by a given time on deadline days, they'd simply take a pass that turn.
• Player actions would be via a messageboard I could set up, or better yet, via www.playbyweb.com or www.rpol.net.
• A simple backstory could be that the gods during a god war simply eliminated every person, every structure, except for a few small groups, and the game begins as these groups find themselves on the road to recovery.
• Between the map, the realm sheets and the yearly turn summary, it could be an interesting little campaign setting when done, with a rich recent history.
• As players came and went, new players could be found I am sure!

 

[Emiricol]

An interesting side possibility would be to get subordinate nobles when nations get big. Any interest? Any thoughts?

 

[Eosin the Red]

I would take a gander at the Birthright PbP-PBeM community to see how they do some of this stuff. There is always interest and it is usually hard to get into a good game [I started turning people away from my game at 38 players].

I am not sure but I think you will probably find alot about FoB on BR-L also.

FoB has some really great web potential.

 

[Emiricol]

Anyone have a URL for this thing Eosin was kind enough to mention? I can't find it.

 

[Eosin the Red]

Ask in the www.Birthright.net forums - it is the official BR site.

 

[MarauderX]

Hey, keep me in the loop, I am interested in getting some FoB experience before incorporating it into my campaign. Not sure where to find Birthright, yet, will try later.

 

[Eosin the Red]

On a wierd Tangent - I am working on publishing a setting that will incorporate the FoB rules.

The first product is a module [Night of Fire] and it won't have a bunch of relevant stuff but not too long after that I hope to start work on the Western States supplement.

I have been reviewing the rules in FoB to work out large kingdom management.

 

[Emiricol]

That is very exciting, Eosin! I've been reading your thread on starting 3P since it began Not much in the forums relevant to what I'm trying to come up with by the way. But I'm absolutely checking out anything you publish.

 

[Sabaron]

Whoa! I was thinking of doing something similar, except that I don't have Fields of Blood so I was going to use a Birthright-3e hybrid of my own design. I certainly like the idea, and especially the PC lesser nobles one. In the test run I did, PC nobles certainly spiced up the action.

I'll post some details of how I had been planning to set things up when it's not three in the morning.