D&D General Nentir Vale In Other Settings

[Dragonhelm]

As a follow-up to the other Nentir Vale thread, I wonder what other settings the Nentir Vale could be placed in.

I had considered Exandria since the pantheons are so closely related, though I don't know the geography well enough to know where to put it.

What setting would you place it in? Exandria, Greyhawk, Mystara, Eberron? Something else entirely?

 

[haakon1]

I think if I ever visit there as DM, I’d have it on its own planet , within the same Prime Material Plane.

Or a different continent if you don’t like that.

 

[Zardnaar]

Geographically anywhere remote. The pantheon s the issue.

 

[haakon1]

My view, for my 3.5e Greyhawk campaigns, is …

All the gods are real.

All the settings exists in parallel with each other - most are in the same Prime Material Plane on different planets.

My PC’s have met folks from other settings, and one retired PC is currently “stranded” by himself in the Forgotten Realms. He’s a Monk, and when he prays to Rao from Candlekeep, Rao hears the same as he would hear a prayer from Oerth.

 

[Desdichado]

1. Eberron: Near Yrlag. Kind of remote, on the borders of Droaam, the Eldeen Reaches, the Shadow Marches and even the Demon Wastes. Alternatively, near Stormwreck Bay on the other side of the Continent, where you can get Mror, Lhazaar, Talenta and Q'barra all involved.

2. Golarion: Somewhere in eastern Varisia, maybe kinda sorta in the area between Korvasa, Janderhof, and Kaer Maga. Actually, I don't like Kaer Maga at all, so maybe it even replaces it kinda. Alternatively, up on the border between the River Kingdoms and Brevoy. Alternatively, it can replace Andor altogether, since Andor is kinda weird.

3. In Greyhawk, it can be one of the areas of the Shield Lands, probably.

 

[haakon1]

The Shield Lands is a single country, but perhaps you meant the Bandit Kingdoms next door.

 

[Desdichado]

No, I meant the "New Shield Lands", which is a small rump state of the original Shield Lands, and claims the rest of the territory once occupied by the "Old Shield Lands". Nentir Vale being a frontier territory in this area that Critwall would like to peacefully reincorporate makes perfect sense.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Domain of Delight, ruled by Mab, rendered to slumber by... some great power. Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to travel back in time to 4th edition and conquer the great power, gain Mab's regard (you don't actually want that probably); and then try to find your way back to 5e. Good luck and godspeed!

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Riffing on that, a Ravenloft domain.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

I'm given to understand that it was meant to be plug-and-play for nearly any setting with a pseudo-medieval situation. Like Dark Sun probably wouldn't work, but most others would.

I imagine it would be dead easy to drop into 13A's Dragon Empire, for example. Then, the Gods of Light and of Darkness would cease to be nebulous entities and instead be the various members of the Dawn War pantheon and their enemies, respectively.

I imagine it would also work with Golarion, it would just be part of a previously unexplored continent. Maybe some kind of powerful magical veil (perhaps a side-effect of the Ban of the primal spirits?) kept the continent from being reached or observed until it just recently popped into existence.