Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="GodDelusion" data-source="post: 4991685" data-attributes="member: 73412">This thread has inspired me to make some changes to my next campaign.  Currently, another player is running us through a 3.5 Ptolus campaign that is slowly moving to Pathfinder.  However, I've had the itch for awhile to move back behind the screen.  I had planned on running a Pathfinder/Wilderlands of High Fantasy campaign, but, I'm going to run an IH/Wilderlands campaign based on the Thomas Covenant books.[sblock=IronHeroes]'The Ritual of Desecration' spell caused the magic of the world to be depleted (Magic is a finite resource).  The lack of magical energies caused the Despiser to fall.  Numerous millenniums have passed and the world has once again grown green.  The human species has evolved and moved on without magic.  But 150 years ago, a group of adventurers discovered an ancient site of power...a shrine dedicated to the ur-Lord.In the shrine, an ancient text was discovered.  The adventurers were unable to decipher much of the text, but one passage that was translated spoke of a great power that would bring peace and harmony to the land and her peoples...the Staff of Law.  Initially, the city-states that bordered on the wastelands did not lay claim on the holy site, or the tome, but when a second decoded passage gave clear directions to an ancient magic known as 'The First Ward of Kevin's Law', the once friendly city-states becamesworn enemies overnight.  Each city-state claimed the site and tome as it's own, and bands of war parties from the city states clashed.  Just as the human species was about to regain access to an ancient and powerful lore...they were torn apart by war.  Now, city-states either are at open war with each other or skirmish  for ownership of the tome.  The holy site has seen been destroyed as militaries and adventurers combed the wastelands for other sites.  This much is known:  ancient man once lived as one city-state, in harmony with nature and other races that have long since left The Land.  30 years ago, the holy text was stolen by an unknown source, and this caused tensions between the city-states to grow even more intense.  The rulers of the larger city-states secretly met and an informal agreement was reached inwhich open war was to cease (The Duraminish Accord).  Any city-state that declared war or otherwise took actions that could be considered hostile against any other city-state was immediately considered an enemy to all city-states.  Skirmishes continue, but, politics are now as much a factor as steel.  25 years ago, some of the races that once called The Land home began to return.  Some of these races were good...many were not.A race of humans, known as the Harachai, came down from their mountains with old myths that spoke of the Ur-Lord and his battles against an ancient arch-evil simply known as the Despiser.  Giants crossed the seas and have made initial diplomatic treatsies with the city-states that border the eastern coast.  Thus far, the Giants claim to have no knowledge of the ancient city-state or the Ur-Lord.A collection of species, collectively known as the Demondim, have emerged from The Down Below to assault the surface.  Their attacks thus far have have been sporatic and uncoordinated and this has kept them from causing any real damage to humans.  The campaign begins as the PCs are all political prisoners of an undetermined city-state.  This city-state has claimed that each of the PCs is a spy, and thus they forfeit any rights granted to war-time prisoners in the Duraminish Accord.[/sblock]This is true...I also remember reading Mike's comments on this topic.  However, there had been some very apt rewrites from the community, including a great version by Harry Pratt (Soulmage) that can be found <a href="http://soulmagesihfixes.pbworks.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.  There is also <a href="http://www.iron-league.com/index.cfm" target="_blank">this outstanding resource</a>.So, while official support might be waning, there remains good support from engineering fans of the ruleset.  I, for one, will keep the fire burning by introducing my group to IH in the next several months.</blockquote>

Verification