OA Adventures - Any d20 available?

[reveal]

A friend of mine is going to run an OA campaign. As far I can see, there are no d20 OA adventures available. Am I missing something? If they are available, what are they and where can he get them from?

 

[EricNoah]

Well the problem is that none of the OA rules are open content. So publishers can't use them to design their adventures. AEG's stuff is done under license; maybe they'll do some adventures. Or maybe some of the OA stuff will end up in the SRD in a couple of years.

 

[KingOfChaos]

Despite them not being open content, nothing keeps you from making your own Oriental setting. They can copyright OA, but they can't copyright the oriental mythology or culture.

 

[ForceUser]

I'm starting an OA campaign this Sunday. As far as I can see, your options are A) write your own adventures and B) convert existing adventures to OA (which is easier than it sounds).

There is a setting coming out soon from some fellows in Virginia. I forget what their offering will be called, but it sounds like a whole line of OA products starting with a campaign world book based on a Chinese fantasy novel. I think it was on ENWorld's front page not too long ago.

Myself, I've always preferred to design my own adventures anyway, because they mesh seamlessly with the rest of my campaign world. But I have considered converting a couple of interesting modules as well.

 

[Tsyr]

Unless you want to use any of the rules... samurai, ninja, shaman, wu-jen, family blades, the new spells, prestige classes, iajutsu...

 

[smetzger]

A friend of mine is going to run an OA campaign. As far I can see, there are no d20 OA adventures available. Am I missing something? If they are available, what are they and where can he get them from?

There are some free ones in the Adventure Guide. Just do a search for Oriental.

 

[RogueJK]

Several of AEG's "Adventure Keep" series of mini-modules are made for an Oriental setting. These include...

8348 Treachery's Reward (Levels 1-3)
8349 Unspoken Shame (Levels 3-5)
8351 The Daisho and the Ninja (Levels 1-3)
8530 Blood on White Petals (Levels 2-5)

Check your local gaming shop. Mine usually has a decent selection of AEG's Adventure Keep booklets. You can also order them online.

They're short, but also fairly cheap. Each 16-page module only costs $2.99.

 

[Psion]

Several of AEG's "Adventure Keep" series of mini-modules are made for an Oriental setting. These include...

8348 Treachery's Reward (Levels 1-3)
8349 Unspoken Shame (Levels 3-5)
8351 The Daisho and the Ninja (Levels 1-3)
8530 Blood on White Petals (Levels 2-5)

Yup. Ran the last one in my OA campaign. It really is another "beleagured village" yarn, but the good execution of the Asiatic setting elements makes it worthwhile. However, I'd say level should be 4-6, or you should tone down some of the intervening encounters. You meet up with hordes of sufficiently tough creatures that would easily trounce a second level party. (Actually, the big boss would trounce a second level party, too.)

 

[Ranger REG]

Despite them not being open content, nothing keeps you from making your own Oriental setting. They can copyright OA, but they can't copyright the oriental mythology or culture.

While OA requires the Player's Handbook, a d20 publisher can also make a similar core rulebook, introducing Chinese-flavored Wuxia-themed character classes and an original Chinese-flavored fantasy campaign.

That way you guys can compete against Wizards' OA and AEG's Rokugan, currently the only two products in the d20 Asian genre games ... which also requires each books.

So, any takers?