Points of Light World. Lets discuss!


4th Edition


Hello!
Posted this in the other rpgs section as well as in 3.x but it might have more luck here (admittedly it belongs in all three):

So I ve recently set up a mod in Tabletop Simulator to run a campaign with some of my oldest gamer friends I havent seen in years.(the system I ll be using is Mythras Classic Fantasy)

I decided to make it a sort of Dungeons and Dragons nostalgia trip (some of us started with AD&D and played together as kids others entered the scene with us around 3.5 but we all have fond memories with some if not all the lore of D&D)

In order to have a metaphysical explanation as to why iconic locations from all of the Editions are on the same setting, I decided to adapt Points of Light from 4E.

I have customized some of the Cosmological: for instance its more of a well or funnel(instead of the centre of the Multiverse) so events or ideas or locations are attracted and echoes of original versions appear on this planet sporadically and due to certain reasons I might explain in another post.

The history of the World is rewritten and memories of races are reshaped accordingly each time this happens.. only a few people have the capacity to remember the original timeline of events.

And off course its an excellent starting point for trying another system with it and actually having a shared narrative (players will be creating locations and histories as well as Guilds and characters alongside the work I ve already done myself)

The big Campaign I plan to run first is Red Hand of Doom btw

Anyone using this setting at the moment?


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This setting is variably called either Points of Light or the Nentir Vale, and it has a small but very passionate fanbase on The Piazza; Zeromaru, a user there (and a friend of mine!) maintains a massive collection of all the scattered canon lore from across 4e, and has a lot of wisdom about how best to use it.

I really like a lot of the lore; Arkhosia and Bael Turath are awesome fallen empires, the planar worldbuilding is the best D&D's ever had, and the Underdark book is one of my favorite supplements ever.


keftiu wrote:

This setting is variably called either Points of Light or the Nentir Vale, and it has a small but very passionate fanbase on The Piazza; Zeromaru, a user there (and a friend of mine!) maintains a massive collection of all the scattered canon lore from across 4e, and has a lot of wisdom about how best to use it.

I really like a lot of the lore; Arkhosia and Bael Turath are awesome fallen empires, the planar worldbuilding is the best D&D's ever had, and the Underdark book is one of my favorite supplements ever.

Hello! Just from looking at it I agree with you.I especially liked the Cosmology.

Did you take part in any long term campaigns originating in that setting?

I have come across some of Zeromarus posts, during my research, and saved the links for future use! I am myself in the process of getting all the lore in one pdf (as a gazetteer of sorts..off course system agnostic at first and then I will adapt it to Mythras)

Is he also on the forums here?


Out of curiosity; have you ever seen an attempt at a map for the areas covering the lands between Nera up to the western coast and where it merges with the Elsir Vale?

Basically the parts outside of the main continents map they made.

Or the third continent for that matter...

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