D&D 5E Not Aegyptus

[Zardnaar]

Due to lockdowns and Covid restrictions we haven't been able to play since August. Rules are relaxing soon though and theoretically will be able to play with vaccine mandates.

Anyway since I'm probably gonna lose several players (one no vaz, one moved in lockdown, medicine school perhaps( I'm starting a new game. A couple of years ago I ran an Egyptian themed game using Midgards Nuria Natal.

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Anyway looking at running Aegyptus 2.0. Might use Nuria Natal or base it in Nuria Natal as I have a rough idea what I want to do. After some ideas, cheesy is fine.

Inspiration. Ancient Egypt, The Mummy movies/books, Assassin's Creed Origins, The Bible, Gods of Egypt movie.

 

[Zardnaar]

Brainstorm List/ Rough ideas so far.

Order vs Chaos.

Not Egypt set in fantasy bronze age collapse political set up.

Pre dynastic Ancient Asu(mechanically high elves).

Factions. The Hidden/Hidden Ones (assassin's), Cult of the Scarab (entropy death cult),

Spotlighted Races. Dragonborn, Dwarves, Gnolls, Humans, Kenku, Minotaurs, Ratfolk, Werelions,

Plotlines. Ancient secrets, raiders from the north (fantasy sea peoples).

Themes. Deserts, poison, tombs, undead

 

[aco175]

Sounds like a good list so far. I always liked the feel of ancient Egypt for games. I have not used gnolls that much recently, but they fit perfectly for this and a desert adventure. Love the movie's pigmy skeletons, not sure if they have become political though.

 

[Zardnaar]

Forgot to mention something like the Savage Tide AP except of becoming a mutant you become undead.

 

[pukunui]

I’ve been wanting to do an ancient Egypt campaign since reading about the Egyptian-themed Domain of Dread in Van Richten’s guide.

there was also a thread on here that mentioned a decent Pathfinder AP that was Egyptian themed.

I wish WotC would put out some adventures based in the other Ravenloft domains.

 

[Zardnaar]

I’ve been wanting to do an ancient Egypt campaign since reading about the Egyptian-themed Domain of Dread in Van Richten’s guide.

there was also a thread on here that mentioned a decent Pathfinder AP that was Egyptian themed.

I wish WotC would put out some adventures based in the other Ravenloft domains.

Yeah I recyled pt one of the Pathfinder AP last time around. Perhaps I can just steal more from it lol.

I also have some Quests of Doom, Pharoah and Another DoD adventure to mine.

 

[GuyBoy]

Might be worth looking at Gary Gygax’s Necropolis. The 3e version was great and I believe Frog God have launched a 5e version.

 

[jayoungr]

I love Nuria Natal. Did you know that Kobold Press has (finally) released a 5E version of their Southlands setting book, along with several adventures?

 

[not-so-newguy]

If you own a copy of Yawning Portal, you might throw the Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan in there somewhere. It's a heavily trapped dungeon based on Aztec culture and a Vampire cult. It looks like it has plenty of puzzles that hurt your players' brains, and probably yours too.

 

[Zardnaar]

If you own a copy of Yawning Portal, you might throw the Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan in there somewhere. It's a heavily trapped dungeon based on Aztec culture and a Vampire cult. It looks like it has plenty of puzzles that hurt your players' brains, and probably yours too.

Yeah I own that.

 

[Zardnaar]

I love Nuria Natal. Did you know that Kobold Press has (finally) released a 5E version of their Southlands setting book, along with several adventures?

Yes I'm eyeing it up for Christmas.

 

[jayoungr]

Yes I'm eyeing it up for Christmas.

I backed the Kickstarter, so let me know if there's anything you'd like me to check about it!

--Oh, the Tomb of the Scorpion Prince from the Book of Lairs is a nicely varied mini-dungeon set in Nuria Natal.

 

[Quartz]

Anyway looking at running Aegyptus 2.0. Might use Nuria Natal or base it in Nuria Natal as I have a rough idea what I want to do. After some ideas, cheesy is fine.

See if you can find a copy of Mythic Egypt, the Hero System / MERP sourcebook.

 

[Zardnaar]

See if you can find a copy of Mythic Egypt, the Hero System / MERP sourcebook.

I will my be putting a huge amount of effort into buying books due to postage issues.

Southlands is an exception because it's available here apparently and it's something I was thinking of getting anyway.

And don't really want to spend money on new books.

 

[Voadam]

There are a lot of great D&D Ancient Egypt sourcebooks with most still available as PDFs.

Green Ronin has Hamunaptra for D&D Egypt (dwarves and elves), and Testament (for d20 mythic biblical roleplaying including Egyptian spellcasters).

Paizo has their Osirian with both a 32 page sourcebook and a more in-depth 64 page one, in addition to the 6-part adventure path and their two 3.5 era modules.

Necromancer games had the 3e conversion of Gary Gygax's Necropolis.

Chaosium has a bunch of pulpy Call of Cthulhu adventures that sometimes take place in Egypt that could be great ideas for a fantasy Egypt D&D game.

D&D's Forgotten Realms has a fantasy Ancient Egypt area that is detailed out in the 2e Old Empires sourcebook and the 3.5 Lost Empires of Faerun. Also there is the I3-5 series of modules and the Basic D&D Nithia kingdom sourcebook with pyramid magic.

Avalanche Press had some decent d20 Egypt sourcebooks from the d20 era, and there was Mongoose Press's Conan d20 Stygia sourcebook for the Hyborian version.

 

[Zardnaar]

There are a lot of great D&D Ancient Egypt sourcebooks with most still available as PDFs.

Green Ronin has Hamunaptra for D&D Egypt (dwarves and elves), and Testament (for d20 mythic biblical roleplaying including Egyptian spellcasters).

Paizo has their Osirian with both a 32 page sourcebook and a more in-depth 64 page one, in addition to the 6-part adventure path and their two 3.5 era modules.

Necromancer games had the 3e conversion of Gary Gygax's Necropolis.

Chaosium has a bunch of pulpy Call of Cthulhu adventures that sometimes take place in Egypt that could be great ideas for a fantasy Egypt D&D game.

D&D's Forgotten Realms has a fantasy Ancient Egypt area that is detailed out in the 2e Old Empires sourcebook and the 3.5 Lost Empires of Faerun. Also there is the I3-5 series of modules and the Basic D&D Nithia kingdom sourcebook with pyramid magic.

Avalanche Press had some decent d20 Egypt sourcebooks from the d20 era, and there was Mongoose Press's Conan d20 Stygia sourcebook for the Hyborian version.

I've got some of that. Paizo stuff and 2E material.

 

[Voadam]

I like a lot of the Osirian material (a city based in the shell of a dead Spawn of Rovagug, Dominion of the Black connections, former Qadiran occupation, ancient powerful magical pharaohs with some narrative hooks) but I was a bit disappointed in the 32 page sourcebook after reading it cover to cover. I used some of the J series pyramid modules as the backstory for the party in a one-shot Mwangi expanse adventure to explain how they had a history together and it worked great.

 

[JPChapleau]

First Ones Entertainment (FOE) has a 5e system that closely matches what you are looking for called "Akhamet" on DrivethruRPG

 

[Eltab]

3e supplement Sandstorm has a 'priest of river god' class and rules for just slogging across the desert - heat, sand, rocks, exotic / semi-magical terrain.

Lamias at an oasis

The Ten Commandments (the movie, not the tablets)
Prince of Egypt - kid-friendly cartoon version of the above
Lawrence of Arabia - movie, also his autobiography "Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
+1 for Testament
any book that claims "Egypt was a colony of Atlantis" will provide some ideas to use as in-world 'ancient history' or myth or legend. And to use as out-world inside joke.

 

[Zardnaar]

3e supplement Sandstorm has a 'priest of river god' class and rules for just slogging across the desert - heat, sand, rocks, exotic / semi-magical terrain.

Lamias at an oasis

The Ten Commandments (the movie, not the tablets)
Prince of Egypt - kid-friendly cartoon version of the above
Lawrence of Arabia - movie, also his autobiography "Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
+1 for Testament
any book that claims "Egypt was a colony of Atlantis" will provide some ideas to use as in-world 'ancient history' or myth or legend. And to use as out-world inside joke.

I do have precursors that while not quite Atlantis.