[ot]Magnamund - Lone Wolf Series

[KChagga]

The Lone Wolf series was awesome. I loved those books. Yes, this would make a great campaign setting.
I think the kai would have to be a prestige class, but to do it right you would have to make them progress slowly. That is if you wanted any kind of game balance. Giaks, helghast, and the darklords would make great adversaries.
Each one of the books in the lone wolf series can almost be looked at as campaign sourcebooks. In each book you get: maps of the area, an indepth look at the cultures of an area, you learn what kind of beasties are in the area, you find out about power groups in the area, and you learn about some important NPCs. Heck you even get an idea of the fighting ability and powers of the beasties you fight.
The Magnamund Companion has all kinds of crunchy bits about the world in it.

 

[Eternalknight]

Just found this site, which has some conversions of Lone Wolf to AD&D: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Nebula/1017/ADD.htm

 

[GrimJesta]

These links rock.

I would be happy to contribute to a conversion project. I have a bunch of books too, and the companion book, but I forget which ones I have.

-=Grim=-

 

[dagger]

I though I give this a bump since its been over 12 hours.

 

[Eternalknight]

Ok, to borrow a line from Pink: Let's get this party started.

I'm currently working on making a Kai, Magnakai and Grand Master prestige class. They are powerful, but hard to achieve. Do you think an alignment requirement should be Lawful Good only, or could Lawful Neutral work as well?

All of the base classes (including psion and psychic warrior) should be available on Magnamund; in Sommerlund, maybe only Bard, Cleric, Druid, Fighter, Paladin, Ranger, Rogue, Sorcerer and Wizard should be available. What do you think?

 

[Jeremy]

I've got converted stat blocks for giaks, gourgaz, kraan, helghasts, vordaks, crypt spawn, doom wolves, drakkarim, drakkar deathnights and zlanbeasts. They are not 100% faithful, I basically found someone else doing them in 2e and I made it 3e and edited to more fit my memory of the flying high over Magnamund into the black city of Helgedad..

I don't know if anyone is interested in what I've got, but they might be a starting point for you if you want to make closer interpretations of the armies of Helgedad.

 

[Eternalknight]

I've got converted stat blocks for giaks, gourgaz, kraan, helghasts, vordaks, crypt spawn, doom wolves, drakkarim, drakkar deathnights and zlanbeasts. They are not 100% faithful, I basically found someone else doing them in 2e and I made it 3e and edited to more fit my memory of the flying high over Magnamund into the black city of Helgedad..

I don't know if anyone is interested in what I've got, but they might be a starting point for you if you want to make closer interpretations of the armies of Helgedad.

I would love to see them Jeremy. Could you email them to me? eternalknight@hotkey.net.au

 

[reiella]

Wow... Good good. WIll have to search my old books and see if I have any :x. Sadly though I think they're past the Magnakai series and I only have the abridged us grand master ones :x.

Do believe I have all of the World of Lonewolf books though. WIll have to go see.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Here's my version of the Herbwarden (healer) class. I think that while *most* classes should exist, some shouldn't (as I see it, cleric is one of these - like all those high priests in Howard's stories, there's nothing really to differentiate them from, say, mages. Overall, the gods of Magnamund (except Alyss and, to an extent, Kai) seem to be aloof and rarely interfering with mortal affairs. Anyway, the Herbwarden is a decent substitution for the cleric, I think.

Another is the druid - although the saga makes reference to druids (the Ceners, that Sommlending villain met in Book 11, the band in The Graveyard of the Ancients (Book 1)), Magnamundi druids seem to be of the "evil mage" stereotype.

Also, the magic of Magnamund seems to be quite a bit different than the Vancian system in DnD. I could almost see it as a feat/skill system, akin to the Force in the SWRPG or psychic powers in COC. Just give Magnamundi magi bonus feats or somesuch. Could make it easier (or not) to make the "high magi" (Elder Magi and Shianti).

BTW, I have Books 1-20 (the abridged US versions, though) and 1-4 of the World of Lone Wolf series.

 

[Eternalknight]

Ok, here is my Kai Lord prestige class Have a look, tell me what you think, and let's work on it. I am starting to develop a Magnakai prestige class, but won't post it until we figure out the Kai one.
Andrew, I guess you are right about clerics and druids, and a herbwarden class would fill the roll of a cleric nicely. However, how about making a druid more like an evil cleric?

As for spellcasters, well I can't remember any reference in the books to spellbooks. Maybe eliminating the wizard class and making sorcerer the default spellcaster. Certainly, the schools of magic would have to change; left and right hand magic, and Old Kingdom battle magic. Or, we could follow the Grey Star example, using Sorcery, Enchantment, Elementalism, Alchemy, Prophecy, Psychomancy and Evocation.