D&D 5E Let's Discuss Arcana of the Ancients

[GlassJaw]

No. A Stargate like campaign...but instead of Earth it is a dying world and the PCs (and others) are going world to world looking for a safe place to move as many of the People as possible before it is destroyed. Many of the worlds will have AotA aspects to them. And, their off world base will be one such world. The Gods can't tell them which worlds are best, because they are so busy (using their power) to keep the world from being destroyed ....or something like that.

That is so awesome. I ran a similar campaign using Savage Worlds a while back. A hostile aliens civilization basically conquered Earth but humans were able to reverse-engineer their tech and started dimensional-hopping to escape and hopefully figure out a way to stop the aliens.

I also set it up so we could alternate GMs. We would switch GMs when the party found a new portal and hopped through. It was really fun.

 

[Weiley31]

I personally feel like its something you can combine with your Esper Genesis games.

 

[Dire Bare]

Utterly disappointed, but from the other side of the equation. I was expecting something more like Numenera with types (i.e., nanos, jacks, glaives), focuses, and the like converted to 5e and not just D&D wholesale inserted into the Ninth World with some science fantasy adornments.

AofA adds the Numenera setting and some of the Cypher system mechanics to D&D for science fantasy play . . . but I can see where you would have wanted to see 5E versions of the nano, jack, and glaive classes. They correspond pretty well with wizards/clerics, rogues, and warriors . . . but those same archetypes with different mechanics behind them would be interesting. I can also see why MCG didn't go that route, as it would be somewhat redundant.

 

[Dire Bare]

No. A Stargate like campaign...but instead of Earth it is a dying world and the PCs (and others) are going world to world looking for a safe place to move as many of the People as possible before it is destroyed. Many of the worlds will have AotA aspects to them. And, their off world base will be one such world. The Gods can't tell them which worlds are best, because they are so busy (using their power) to keep the world from being destroyed ....or something like that.

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[SkidAce]

I did not pcik up Beneath the Monolith. That's the actual setting book, right? Is there anything in there largely missing from AotA?

It is, this preview should be okay....

 

[Faolyn]

I like it, although I don't (currently) have a use for the creatures in it. One of these days, maybe.

 

[Reynard]

I like it, although I don't (currently) have a use for the creatures in it. One of these days, maybe.

The creatures should be the easiest to use, no? Just slip them in where their CRs work and watch as players scratch their heads.

 

[Faolyn]

The creatures should be the easiest to use, no? Just slip them in where their CRs work and watch as players scratch their heads.

Maybe? I could probably come up with some way to justify some of them in Ravenloft, at least.

 

[darjr]

Does that monolith book include character classes or player mechanics?

 

[Weiley31]

Does that monolith book include character classes or player mechanics?

I've heard that it does not include The Glaive, Nano, and Jack as as classes.