Is Farland Fun?

Zerakon · Sep 25, 2004

Anyone running a campaign in Farland? Is it any fun?

Knightfall · Sep 25, 2004

Zerakon said:
Anyone running a campaign in Farland? Is it any fun?

No, but that is an awsome website.

Galethorn · Sep 25, 2004

If I hadn't been working on my own *similar homebrew for a few years before discovering Farland, there's no doubt I'd be playing in that setting. For the time being, however, I just visit for ideas, as well as the Mass Combat simulator.

*Similar in that it's got a lot of history, is inspired quite a bit by Tolkien, and has use for a mass-battle simulator. Look for more on my Yril campaign setting in the future...like, when I get around to making a website, deciding firmly on a course of events in the history, or making new stats for the 'same old name, great new feel' races my setting shares with the PHB...like gnomes.

diaglo · Sep 25, 2004

Knightfall1972 said:
No, but that is an awsome website.

ditto.

i pimp Farland when i can.

Turanil · Sep 25, 2004

Farland is one of the best homebrew on the internet IMO.

This didn't prevent me to write my own homebrew though...

Nisarg · Sep 25, 2004

Zerakon said:
Anyone running a campaign in Farland? Is it any fun?

Forgive me for my paranoia, but is this a real question or an ad?

I mean, I had never heard of Farland, and the way you posed the question smacks of a ploy to get people to go onto the website.. did you have anything to do with this setting?

Like most online settings, its relatively uninteresting. Online settings are the RPG equivalent of fan-fiction. Once in a while you'll run into something worthwhile, like Zenobia, or Under the Broken Moon, or some (though certainly not all) of the thousands of Amber DRPG campaign sites; but mostly its unispired badly-written stuff.

Nisarg

Old Fezziwig · Sep 25, 2004

Tell us how you really feel, Nisarg.

As to the original question, no, I haven't, but I have looked at the site a bit.

Nick

Zerakon · Sep 26, 2004

Nisarg said:
Forgive me for my paranoia, but is this a real question or an ad?

I mean, I had never heard of Farland, and the way you posed the question smacks of a ploy to get people to go onto the website.. did you have anything to do with this setting?

Real question. I have absolutely nothing to do with Farland. I found the site last year by googling, and it was actually from the Farland site that I found ENWorld. I got so busy late last year with my business that I had very little time for gaming. I'm now trying to find some time to start a campaign, and remembering Farland, but not having read through it, I just posed the question here to see if it was worth looking more deeply into. In the past, I've always been a make-my-own-world type DM, but with limited time to spend preparing for gaming, I'm more interested in finding a campaign setting built by someone else. Although it does make me sad because world-building is so fun.