My group and I were chatting about assorted video games, novels and movies that we have drawn on for inspiration or tried to adapt to campaign settings. While my personal favorite was A Legend of Zelda game I played in during the early 3.0 era, I was intrigued by the idea of an Eragorn game. I've only read the first book, but can see it being a cool setting.
Has anyone adapted the Inheritance Cycle to 3.5?
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Star Wars Saga Edition.
I know that you posted this in the 3.5 section of the forums, but you may want to look at this Pathfinder compatible product for some ideas:
D&D is not good at running most fantasy settings not made for D&D. That's because, on a fundamental level central to the entire game holding together, it assumes that magic is safe, common, easy, and the way you're probably going to get everything done. By level three, you have a magic item. By the time you're at a high enough level to do a vast array of crazy things with magic on any sort of scale, you're decked out with a pile of magical whatsits, some of which are practically esoteric toys. And the way it treats monsters doesn't much help, either.
That doesn't gel well with a setting where magic is extremely rare, a poorly thought-out spell can kill you, and the most powerful beings in the universe may only have a couple magic trinkets.
To make the game actually be any good at the setting, you'd pretty much have to rebuild the thing (particularly the magic system) from scratch. Take your own example, Zelda d20. It remade races and classes, and did so in a respectable and solid manner, scaling a lot of stuff down and compressing the power curve considerably... and then for the magic chapter, it pretty much just ported in the old magic system with a spell point system, which was completely inconsistent with the setting and anything else in the book and pretty much wrecks everything.
Compare that to similar fan work, Naruto d20. A much better creation, given the standards for fan works. First off, it's far more like D&D than Eragon in its over-the-top, magic-is-everywhere nature, yet they opted to start with d20 Modern as the baseline, for its more consistent model of Strong/Fast/Tough/Smart/Determined/Charismatic hero, and then built on that a jutsu system of their own that, while again very similar to D&D's laundry list of pre-made spells, didn't work with the D&D system. The jutsu write-ups needed four hundred pages long. Mutants & Masterminds/DC Adventures can still do the job comparably well.
I agree Viletta. There have been weak magic system conversions such as the Wheel of Time RPG; and good ones such as the fan made Avatar.
The published d20 RA Salvatore's Demon Wars had a good magic system but the rest was broken and didn't feel like it was true to the books.
Mutants & Masterminds sounds like it would be a good fit.
Using d20 Modern or taking heavily from Unearthed Arcana rules, would be a great start for the non-magic sections. I would check a skill magic system with non-lethal damage or the exhaustion magic system in Unearthed Arcana.
I agree Viletta. There have been weak magic system conversions such as the Wheel of Time RPG; and good ones such as the fan made Avatar.
Curious as to where's the Avatar fan version located...?
Thanks for the input, guys. I would also like to see the Avatar conversions. Anyone have a link?
I agree Viletta. There have been weak magic system conversions such as the Wheel of Time RPG; and good ones such as the fan made Avatar.Curious as to where's the Avatar fan version located...?
I found this one a while back: http://sites.google.com/site/avatard20/
I found this one a while back: hereI agree Viletta. There have been weak magic system conversions such as the Wheel of Time RPG; and good ones such as the fan made Avatar.Curious as to where's the Avatar fan version located...?
Created a link. =)
Ahhh.....I had James Cameron's version in my head when I first saw mention. Forgot about this one.