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Points of Light setting and current cross-over strategy: Round peg in the square hole.
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<blockquote data-quote="knasser" data-source="post: 7000004" data-attributes="member: 65151"><p>Going to be hard to pick one single source. PoL wasn't so much a setting as a feel and a box of goodies. Tricky to describe but wonderful to play. There wasn't a campaign map for example, showing the shape of the land or who ruled where. Yet at the same time you had wonderfully evocative descriptions of the Feywild (the bright, overgrown, danger-filled and thrilling echo of the world itself peopled by fantastic beasts and arch fey and dryads and... ) or the Shadowfell at the opposite end (a quasi-ravenloft like realm but so much more - where the raven queen of the dead held her court and spectres came with the coming storm). Even the planes were artfully constructed - both the same as they ever were but freshly painted. Asmodeous stealing the heart of evil from the depths of the Abyss. Demons waging war on Devils subconsciously and for all eternity to get it back. Primordials exiled in the dawn war but still rumours of one or two imprisoned but alive (and statted up for Epic campaigns in Dragon magazine).</p><p></p><p>Maybe one of the reasons I love it so much is that it doesn't chain everything down in one neat map and history, but essentially acted as a treasure trove of little details, myths and creatures you uncovered in a variety of places. I could equally recommend the Manual of the Planes or Open Grave or the Feywild book and no answer would be wrong, just all covering different areas. Like the setting itself, the background was essentially points of light uncovered here and there with no obvious path from one to the other. I'd just grab whatever you can focusing on the setting books more than anything else. Dragon magazines of that period would be invaluable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="knasser, post: 7000004, member: 65151"] Going to be hard to pick one single source. PoL wasn't so much a setting as a feel and a box of goodies. Tricky to describe but wonderful to play. There wasn't a campaign map for example, showing the shape of the land or who ruled where. Yet at the same time you had wonderfully evocative descriptions of the Feywild (the bright, overgrown, danger-filled and thrilling echo of the world itself peopled by fantastic beasts and arch fey and dryads and... ) or the Shadowfell at the opposite end (a quasi-ravenloft like realm but so much more - where the raven queen of the dead held her court and spectres came with the coming storm). Even the planes were artfully constructed - both the same as they ever were but freshly painted. Asmodeous stealing the heart of evil from the depths of the Abyss. Demons waging war on Devils subconsciously and for all eternity to get it back. Primordials exiled in the dawn war but still rumours of one or two imprisoned but alive (and statted up for Epic campaigns in Dragon magazine). Maybe one of the reasons I love it so much is that it doesn't chain everything down in one neat map and history, but essentially acted as a treasure trove of little details, myths and creatures you uncovered in a variety of places. I could equally recommend the Manual of the Planes or Open Grave or the Feywild book and no answer would be wrong, just all covering different areas. Like the setting itself, the background was essentially points of light uncovered here and there with no obvious path from one to the other. I'd just grab whatever you can focusing on the setting books more than anything else. Dragon magazines of that period would be invaluable. [/QUOTE]
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