WotC_Rodney on Ari M. and Al Qadim

[ruleslawyer]

Meh.

Calimshan could be the quasi-RW equivalent of Moorish Spain.

Of course you still have Anauroch, which is totally outside the bound of RW in terms of how it exist.

OBTW, I am also a long-time FR campaigner. Doesn't mean everyone who plays FR for a long time agrees with you.

Thanks for immediately adopting a hostile position toward my post. I said nowhere that I expected everyone (or anyone) who runs an FR campaign to agree with me. (And what's with the "mehs" anyway?)

The fact is that if Calimshan is the quasi-RW equivalent of Moorish Spain (and, IMO, southern Tethyr better fits the bill there anyway; paging through Empires of the Shining Sea will very quickly give one the impression that Calimshan, the Lands of the Lions, and the Lake of Steam are a highly variant version of practically every fantasy Arabia culture out there), then it's even more bizarre from a world-consistency perspective that Zakhara is its own self-contained environment stuck far away from the rest of the Realms, including Calimshan. Better to incorporate AQ elements into Calimshan than to have both existing side by side with no really self-consistent explanation for why.

 

[The Ubbergeek]

Hence why I said 'Ottoman' (turks).

They can coexist well - the Calimshans are kind of 'converted' to parts of Zakharan cultures and believes and all. Like ottomans descend from turks who converted to islam long ago, and adopted the 'pan-islamic' culture bits. If not in flesh directly,weddings and all.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Kinda like monsters are (were) getting paragraphs for "[Monster] in Faerun" and "[Monster] in Eberron".

Devote two pages to "Zakhara in Faerun" and "Zakhara in Eberron" or "Adapting Zakhara".

That'd be totally fetch.

 

[Klaus]

That'd be totally fetch.

Is that a new term for cool? Does Scott Rouse know of it yet?

 

[Ranger REG]

Thanks for immediately adopting a hostile position toward my post.

Hostile? I'm just taking an opposing position, is all.

 

[Ranger REG]

Better to incorporate AQ elements into Calimshan than to have both existing side by side with no really self-consistent explanation for why.

What's stopping you? AQ is more a sourcebook than a setting book (as I have posted that many, many time). Even the 2e Crusade campaign book (the green one) refers to AQ if you want to play a semi-historical campaign.

 

[Steely Dan]

The Magnificent Seven?

…Inches.

 

[Dr. Strangemonkey]

…Inches.

It's not the unit of measurement that matters, it's the magnificence.

 

[Steely Dan]

Better to incorporate AQ elements into Calimshan than to have both existing side by side with no really self-consistent explanation for why.

There is an explanation, a canon one – ancient Zakharans (genies as well?) founded Calimshan.

And the Al-Badians of Zakhara are related to the desert tribes of Anauroch.

 

[Klaus]

What's stopping you? AQ is more a sourcebook than a setting book (as I have posted that many, many time). Even the 2e Crusade campaign book (the green one) refers to AQ if you want to play a semi-historical campaign.

Ah, the green The Crusades. It was awesome.