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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CuRoi" data-source="post: 5490996" data-attributes="member: 98032">I believe a campaign I ran for many years qualifies. You can read the session logs at the bottom of this page: <a href="http://www.eyrurpg.com/old_site/logs.html" target="_blank">Eyru RPG: Tales - Fan Fiction and the Current Official Campaign</a> Actually, the session logs taper off about half way through "Book One" and include nothing from Book Two where the players took up new PCs from long lost Eastern Continent and had to deal with all the bad nasty stuff the original series of PCs dealt with, but straight at its source. "Book Two" ends with the new crop of PCs finally uncovering the planar secrets to connecting to the homeland and joining up right where Book One leaves off - the original PCs facing a desperate battle against insurmountable odds. It took the better part of ten years for my players and I to create it all with a few breaks for other campaigns a Firefly game and what not (the session logs cover only 30 weeks but might give a good idea). Anyway, I set out to immerse the players in an environment and charge them with the "epic" campaign responsibilities from the start. The homeworld had lost magic (arcane and divine) and the PCs slowly discovered this was due to a nefarious clandestine group known as the Triumvirate. The players nearly all chose to play arcane / divine casters and were black sheep from the start. As they adventured, they awakened magic, skirmished with the evil forces and when it looked like they might succeed, the evil forces awakened the Giant-kin of the northern lands to wage war. It was long, intense and fraught with both epic battles and roleplay. The thing that made it work I think was the sense of discovery. At times I was too opaque and not so polished, but for the most part, the players really got into who their characters were and the enormous task they were pursuing. I also gave each a personalized Geas to pursue throughout the camapign that linked them to erstwhile allies in the Otherworld, land of the Fey.  It was all also based loosely on Irish myth so the stories and places felt real in a certain sense. Using an actual language, Gaelic, gave things more weight than if I just made up random strings of letters. And the timelessness of the myths translated well into something the players could relate to. So compared to your experience, I think grounding it even loosely in real world history was important so players could relate, and also providing a real sense of purpose for the characters as well.</blockquote>

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