Northern Crown?

[Qualidar]

I'm still working on the Boston book.

In the meantime, you might enjoy the full-length Northern Crown adventure The Onondaga Mission in the current issue of Franklyn's Almanack.

I'm sure I might, I bought it last night.

Your previous post warmed my heart.

Well, glad to please. It's been the first product I've bought where I keep poking my girlfriend and saying stuff like "Oh, Oh! She's the daughter of Elizabeth and Oberon!!"

She, having been in that ENWorld gameday test group you ran, keeps replying with: "Yeah, I knew that."

~Qualidar~

 

[Michael Dean]

I highly recommend NC. I just picked up Franklyn's Almanac #2 before the holiday and read it up at my cabin, and I love it. The adventure was really well done, so kudos Doug! I've been wanting to run a more First Ones centric campaign and the maps alone were worth picking it up. But the actual format of the adventure was pretty cool too. I'm not a big fan of linear adventures, so the mission-oriented aspect was right up my alley. Please feel free to write more like it.

 

[Michael Dean]

Anyone think of limiting or removing the cleric and wizard class and just using the new classes from the book? It seems to me that some of the spells from both classs like fireball, blade barrier and raise dead (Just to name a few) might be overpowering for a historical fantasy type game.

Maybe healer from MHB would work in place of cleric? And natural philospher in place of the wizard/sorcerer classes?

Just a thought..

Mike

I just bought Green Ronin's True Sorcery, and my main reason for buying it was to see if it could port over to NC. I love NC, but am a little uncomfortable with straight up D & D magic. I've been looking for something a little darker, like the Conan magic Doug was talking about. Also, I think The Black Company setting rules on healing/healers sounds like a good option to use instead of clerics. Anyway, just my two cents.

 

[dougmander]

I highly recommend NC. I just picked up Franklyn's Almanac #2 before the holiday and read it up at my cabin, and I love it. The adventure was really well done, so kudos Doug! I've been wanting to run a more First Ones centric campaign and the maps alone were worth picking it up. But the actual format of the adventure was pretty cool too. I'm not a big fan of linear adventures, so the mission-oriented aspect was right up my alley. Please feel free to write more like it.

Thanks, I really like my mission-web format and will definitely use it as a template for more adventures. For those of you who don't know what Michael and I are talking about, The Onondaga Mission presents the PCs with up to five (IIRC) discrete missions that can be achieved in almost any order, rather than having the A==> B==> C==> linear structure common to many adventure modules.

A cabin sounds like a great place to read a Northern Crown adventure. Do you ever game up there?

 

[Michael Dean]

A cabin sounds like a great place to read a Northern Crown adventure. Do you ever game up there?

Unfortunately, my wife isn't a gamer. But there's hope for my five year old daughter. Lately she's been asking about playing D&D. And yes, the cabin is awesome. We inherited it from the wife's side of the family. Big deck less than 200 feet from the lake (Big Bear lake near Lewiston for anyone who happens to live near there and ever wants to run a game while I'm there) with a large table that would be perfect for gaming. I could only take a couple of books up, so naturally I took NC. For some reason, I kept having visions of playing an Ottawa First One. The fact that the star on the map for the Gazeteer entry for the Ottawa is almost exactly where our cabin is in Michigan had nothing to do with it. My plan was to run an adventure involving a small tribe located by the Lake-of-the-Big-Bear, as a matter of fact.

 

[qstor]

My plan was to run an adventure involving a small tribe located by the Lake-of-the-Big-Bear, as a matter of fact.

Michael, Are you playing NC with the guy Brook that posts on the Atlas Boads from E. Lansing? I'm near Detroit.
E-mail me off the boards

Mike M.

 

[qstor]

*bump*

In case people weren't aware of the bad news Doug announced in this thread:


http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=177323

That Adamant wasn't putting out any more issues of Franklyn's Almanack. Because of that I wanted to see if there was any interest in starting a free Northern Crown web fanzie like the very well done Hall of Fire for Decipher's LOTR game and the Oerth Journal for Greyhawk. I was envisioning with Doug's ok of course! Something similar for Northern Crown to the two fanzine's I mentioned. I'm not good at graphics or editing but I'd thought I'd suggest it write an article. So maybe we could get some articles or artwork and create a well dome fanizine Just an idea I thought up a name too? The Sophian Chronicle?

Mike

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Doug, after checking out the site announcing the setting I notice the part about what wasn't included in the book(s). Is there any chance of a Northern Crown Wars book?

 

[Achan hiArusa]

I looked at it and I like the idea. After watching the Patriot I thought of staging adventures in the New World and I like the alternate history (what if the Vikings hadn't been driven off, what if the experiment in the Carolina's had succeeded, etc.) the only problem I have with tying it with Nyambe is that well, how do I say this, it seems that the setting while good is still highly derivative of the real world and tying it with a fictional continent that looks nowhere near like Africa stretches my suspension of disbelief a bit, though Nyamban Engolos are a good way to bring the monk into the game.

 

[qstor]

[T]he only problem I have with tying it with Nyambe is that well, how do I say this, it seems that the setting while good is still highly derivative of the real world and tying it with a fictional continent that looks nowhere near like Africa stretches my suspension of disbelief a bit, though Nyamban Engolos are a good way to bring the monk into the game.

Doug mentioned on the Atlas d20 boards in response to a question I posed to "flip" the Nyambe map around so it looks more like Africa and leave some of the more "fantastic" elements like the demi-human PC races being commonly encountered in everyday life to the stuff of legends.