What campaign setting are you using (or planning to use) for Age of Worms?
I think I'm going to use Eberron.
What campaign setting are you using (or planning to use) for Age of Worms?
I think I'm going to use Eberron.
I'm using Eberron. I'm DM'ing a party of 5(no pun intenden), of 2 chageling rouges, 1 kalasthar psion, a shifter ranger and a human cleric of Dol Dorn. We are taking the first steps on Sunday
What campaign setting are you using (or planning to use) for Age of Worms?
I think I'm going to use Eberron.
My group is in the Midnight Campaign Setting. We have one Channler, one Anti-Paladin and finally a Legate of Izrador (evil priest)and a couple of NPC henchmen. I'm sure you can tell there great fun at parties hehe.
I'm running it in Eberron. Gotta love those conversion notes.
Rooster
i've always used Forgotten Realms, but this time, becuse the adventure path is so self contained, i've decided to use the Greyhawk map. None of my players have any idea whats going on? The sum total of there knowledge (meta thinking) is Diamond lake so its working just purfectly. To be honest i don't know much about Greyhawk so it allows me to do what ever i want as well. The reason i chose Greyhawk was one of my players, the wiz., wanted to see a map of the realm so i "yanked out" the Greyhawk maps from the Dungeon Mag. and laid the section out with Diamond Lake on it and said taa daa, they were not too impressed, but i was!
I'm using Greyhawk, which should make my life easier by not having to convert stuff.
Oh, and Greyhawk sweeeeeeet too.
Also running in Eberron with a human cleric of Dol Arrah, 2 dwarves, an elf, a kalashtar psion and a warforged paladin of the Silver Flame.
The warforged make this adventure a little easier. The underwater encounter with Ulavant was pretty easy and the grick was a cakewalk. In the last session they fought Filge and within no time the warforged had him grappled. The syringe was pretty much useless against him.
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I had run a game a few years ago that was based in the Free City of Greyhawk. The characters were "contractors" for the Thieves' Guild and had done some work along the Ery River (which empties Diamond Lake). I've been mostly out of gaming the past couple of years but reading the AoW arc actually rekindled the DMing flames and I'm running this is in GH. The NPCs of AoW meld wonderfully with the NPCs I had already established. This makes it all fun to build upon. There are just too many cool iconic NPCs that the PCs will rub elbows with during the story to not run it as a Greyhawk adventure. Regardless of the setting, I've enjoyed reading everyone's experiences on the boards. Keep the good insight comin'!
Greyhawk. Not just because it is ready-made for Greyhawk, but because now I get to draw upon all of the Greyhawk material I've been collecting over the years. Numerous 1st edition books and modules, 2nd edition's: The Adventure Begins, Player's Guide, the Lost Tombs series of adventures, Slavers!, The Scarlet Brotherhood, 3rd edition's: Living Greyhawk Gazetteer, Living Greyhawk Journals, and the 4-part world of Greyhawk map.
Plus all of my player's cut their teeth on 1st edition so they'll like finding out about the Rod of Seven Parts and meeting Tenser (not going to use the name Manzorian in my game.)
Forgotten Realms.. weaving the events of the Age of Worms into the official Realms history should be very interesting.
As of yet, it's undecided. It's marvelous how well the adventures fit into Greyhawk, Eberron is my current favorite, and two of my groups would vote for the Realms, whereas I think that the Swordcoast really doesn't fit.
On the other hand, there is this tempting book about Waterdeep...
Forgotten Realms by player request.
I am using Greyhawk. Only one player (out of 7) knows anything about Greyhawk.
Peace and smiles :)
j.
Greyhawk.
I'm a long-time Greyhawker since 1st ed.
~R
I'm using Eberron, which seems to be a popular choice so far.
It will be interesting how the whole nation-forming plot mentioned in Overload will be handled in Eberron, or even FR for that matter. For the record, the last campaigned I finished resulted in the formation of a new nation in my homebrew world. My players might think it's kind of lame to do it again. We'll see.
Greyhawk.
All the others are just cheap posers :P
Regards,
Jack
I'm as of yet undecided. I have four... no five choices : Greyhawk, Eberron, Forgotten Realms, Kingdoms of Kalamar or a homebrew. On top of that, I'll probably be running it as a solo campaign, which should be interesting. We'll see. Any recommendations ? I'll admit that I'm severly tempted by Eberron. I'm not that fond of the FR. Greyhawk would probably be less work, since I'll already will have to adjust the campaign for a solo game. KoK I like, but it will need a lot of work to make it fit. A homebrew is always interesting, but I always end up putting to much work into them.
I am currently in the middle of converting the adventure path to the Iron Kingdoms setting (published by Privateer Press). it is my feeling that IK is Eberron done right, and those of you who enjoy Eberron should check out IK, instead (having run both, i can say that IK is what Keith Baker was aiming for but blew it by being forced to include all the other d&d nonsense (e.g., halflings) that appear in other d&d settings).
i feel like Diamond Lake fits the IK aesthetic very well, and the process of the conversion has helped me make these adventures "mine" in a way they couldn't have been if i ran them straight out of the magazine.
i expect to be running a group of four consisting of a cleric of Morrow, a fighter, a gun mage, and a gobber rogue.
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My party are progressing through SC at the moment, and I intend to plonk them into AoW once that's finished, using the same world setting which is an ongoing home-made one I've been running since the late eighties...which isn't that long ago if you say it really fast.
Seeing as it's a mix of Karameikos, FR and Greyhawk, plus what ever else has taken my fancy and/or been invented by various players over the years, it isn't too hard to nudge pretty much anything into it!
Reggie.
The count so far:
Greyhawk: 10
Eberron: 5
Forgotten Realms: 2
Other: 3
Forgotten Realms.
Forgotten Realms here.
(although I have to say that AoW has prompted me to start reading up on Greyhawk again).
My homebrew. It was rather interesting on how perfectly the AoW background terrain fit an undeveloped section. A few changes to gods and races, and I'm good to go.
Also, I use Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved handbook, so that made things a little challenging, as there are some spells that don't really translate well. The party magister (wizard) and wood witch (sorceror/warlock mix) nearly got munched by the swarm in WC as they didn't have access to similar spells as burning hands and the like. But, pour enough flaming oil on your magister and you will cook anything that's on him. :)
I'm using a home-brew (called Saern, thus my screen name). My party has both FR and Eberron books floating around, but the majority of them didn't like the Eberron campaign that was attempted a while ago. One of the players decided to try and run it when he bought the book, but it was his first time running a campaign and he made some big mistakes as a DM. For some reason, my group has equated this to hating all that is Eberron/psionic.
I read Dragonlance before I ever played D&D, and that's actually what drew me into it, but when I looked at the map and realized how small Ansalon was, it rather turned me off from running a campaign there. I love the books; IMO Dragonlance has the best storyline of any "official" setting, but is possibly the worst to run a campaign in.
There have been several attempts to use FR, but one of the players isn't interested at all (and voices this rather vehemently sometimes; one of his major objections is that he doesn't want to memorize another pantheon, especially one without Pelor, nevermind that FR has Lathander!), and I love using my homegrown (something that I have been working on for years and is still undergoing minor revisions all the time- I try to keep those to areas the party hasn't gone to/heard of yet), although I use the GH pantheon in it just because I like it so much.
I also happen to know more about the Realms than any of them, being the only one to have ever read any of the novels, and none of the others are interested in doing that; they just know it's wide and diverse, and thus has good options for play.
Greyhawk. My players have never played in Greyhawk, so it's new to them.
I ran SCAP in a Forgotten Realms-ish fasion... it was set loosely in the Realms, but since they never travelled far outside of Cauldron, it didn't matter what campaign setting it was.
This is also a good change for me as a DM, because with the anount of travel, and the inclusion of the Free City, I can use more of the campaign setting itself. I've also been going over my old Greyhawk books that I've held onto, looking to bring it to the game.
Forgotten Realms most likely, but I am still toying with the idea of doing Greyhawk or a Homebrew. My players don't know anything about GH or FR, so that works out well, but I don't know where to start reading to get more info for a AGreyhawk campaign.
Well I tried SCAP in GH but my player just couldn't get into the setting at all. I started them out in the FR and they love the fact that if they want to know about it there will be some book that will give them some background for characters. So this AP has been set in FR, but damn the conversions are killing me with the amount of extra prep time.
On top of that because there is only two of them I had them try out high powered gestalt characters. So thats means I have to change every encounter. OHhh woooowwwwies meeee.
But having the DM Genie has made some of my headaches go away.
On top of that because there is only two of them I had them try out high powered gestalt characters.
That sounds interesting. I've never used gestalt characters, and I'm interested in how it works out. Post a couple of messages here and there to let us know how well the characters do in the adventures, and what you had to do to make it playable for them.
Thanks!
Greyhawk.
Well I tried SCAP in GH but my player just couldn't get into the setting at all. I started them out in the FR and they love the fact that if they want to know about it there will be some book that will give them some background for characters.
I don't understand how you could have any trouble finding information / books / anything on Greyhawk.....
Definitly Greyhawk. I mean, how can you pass up the chance to use all of the great Greyhawk characters that have already been established over the years? What party wouldn't want to meet people like Melf, Bigby, Tenser, or Mordenkainen?
One of my PC's recently pledged himself to the Knights of Luna, when Melf came out to give him his sword the entire gaming group flipped! Many folks may like the other settings, but its Greyhawk for me, all the way.
I have been a Forgotton realms fan since its intro in '88 I think it was, I was stationed in Germany with the U.S. Army so I didnt get the old gray boxed set until '89, and been in the realms ever since. My players only know the 'Realms so thats where I'm running AoW.
Greyhawk. I tried running a FR campaign once. When a very knowledable fanboy insisted on exploring Undermountain and was very annoying when I told him no. I continued to experience this type of thing through the end of the campaign and heard of similar experiences from other DMs. Since then I went back to GH and never left it again. I have played in Eberron and think it is fun, but I'm leaving Eberron to our secondary DM to run when I need a break.
The count so far:
Greyhawk: 14
Eberron: 5
Forgotten Realms: 7
Other: 5
Maybe these boards could use a polling system...
Eberron.
Greyhawk... The map from Greyhawk: The Adventure Begins, fits seamlessly into AOW campaign. What's a plus is that the players aren't familiar with the campaign setting, but we'll be getting a new player in a couple weeks, and I don't know him very well...
...the One True Setting (that'd be Greyhawk) :)
I love that :)
Jack
That sounds interesting. I've never used gestalt characters, and I'm interested in how it works out. Post a couple of messages here and there to let us know how well the characters do in the adventures, and what you had to do to make it playable for them.Thanks!
Well basically there is a Clr/Sor, Bar/Ftr...but I also have them using a character tree and switch in other characters if they feel the info they have gotten would suit other skills or if a character would perish, so a Drd/Rog and Rgr/Rog also are part of the campaign. I also have a Ninja/Wu-jen traveling as an NPC with them. With only 2-3 characters at a time them being Gestalt balances the EL a little better. But to make things somwhat challenging I have to make the main NPC encounters Gestalt.
For instance Filge became a Nec/Warlock...and Kullen was a Bar/Rog...I am still developing the main NPC's 3FOE yet.
I don't understand how you could have any trouble finding information / books / anything on Greyhawk.....
In not saying there are a lack of books but FR has piles and pile of fluffy great info, and I do believe more novels in general to pull even more fluffy info so it is great for fleshing out character detail. Maybe Greyhawk does too but just not enough to keep my players or myself interested.
Personally I would rather run Ravenloft 7 out of 10 campaigns and overlooking the Overload that may still happen yet.....Bwaahhahahahahahha
What campaign setting are you using (or planning to use) for Age of Worms?
I think I'm going to use Eberron.
I'm using a slightly modified version of Eberron. I like the setting!
The count so far:
Greyhawk: 16
Eberron: 7
Forgotten Realms: 8
Other: 5
I hope this thread is helpful to the Paizo folks. I think it shows the wisdom and importance of including conversion notes for other campaign settings.
Forgotten Realms
I will be playing it in Forgotten Realms once I complete the AP1.
What I find interesting about this thread is that Greyhawk, Eberron and Forgotten Realms are all out pacing the homebrew. We keep getting told that the homebrew campaign is the most popular out there, but this informal survey seems to contend against that.
Perhaps the fact is that while homebrew is most popular, those who are willing to use a pre-fab adventure such as those in Dungeon are also more likely to play in pre-fab worlds (makes sense, right?). If that is the case though, I wonder what that should mean about how Dungeon looks at its audience. Perhaps more conversion sidebars?
Sean Mahoney
Just about to send a party down the AOW AP in Eberron. Both me and my players are long term FR fans but Eberron shows lots of promise
Eberron with Arcana Evolved classes allowed.
...I hope this thread is helpful to the Paizo folks. I think it shows the wisdom and importance of including conversion notes for other campaign settings.
I hope it finds its way to WotC. I know this dead horse has been (repeatedly) beaten, but perhaps serious consideration should be given to resurrecting Greyhawk as a supported campaign. I concede that the business decision might have been valid at the time, but there often comes a time to reevaluate such decisions.
GH continues to maintain a following, and it's not my impression that the population on this board is a strange subcult of D&D players. The milieu permeates the game at a very fundamental level (I've never once played a character that cast a spell created by Elminister).
Just another thought,
(not trying to start a big discussion/debate, really)
Jack